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What is critical question 1?
How are priority issues for Australia's health identified?
What is the first dot point under how are priority issues for Australia's health identified?
Measuring health status.
What is the 2 dash points under measuring health status?
- Role of epidemiology
-Measures of epidemiology
What is the role of epidemiology?
Involves applying stats on births, deaths, disease, hospital use and healthcare through data collection from hospitals, G'P's and surveys in order to identify patterns and/or causes in groups and populations.
What is the definition of epidemiology?
The study of disease in groups or populations.
What are the 4 key measures of epidemiology?
1. Mortality
2. Morbidity 3. Infant mortality
4. Life expectancy
Define mortality.
The number of deaths in a given population from a cause or over
a time period.
Define morbidity.
The incidence/level of illness, disease or injury in a population.
Define infant mortality.
The number of infant deaths in the first year of life per 1000 births.
Define life expectancy
The length of time a person can expect to live.
What is the second dot point under how are priority issues for Australia's health identified?
Identifying priority health issues.
What are the 5 ways priority health issues are identified?
- Social justice principles
- Priority population groups
- Prevalence of condition
- Potential for prevention and early intervention
- Cost to individuals and communties What are the social justice principles?
1. Equity
2. Diversity
3. Supportive environments
How do the social justice principles contribute to identifying priority health issues?
The social justice principles are the foundation for identifying priority health issues by providing an equitable distribution of health recources so that all Australians can have the same health status.
What are priority population groups?
Populations with poorer health outcomes than other Australians.
How fo priority population groups contribute to identifying priority health issues?
Groups with a higher need should be given priority in terms of health recources.
What are some examples of priority population groups?
1. Indigenous populations
2. Low socioecenomic backrounds
3. Rural or isolated communties
4. Men (due to them being more likley to develop a number of diseases
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