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1
Concepts of health and wellbeing
1.1
Overview
1.2
Concepts of health and wellbeing and illness
1.3
Dimensions of health and wellbeing
1.4
The relationships between dimensions of health and wellbeing
1.5
Optimal health and wellbeing as a resource
1.6
KEY SKILLS
1.7
EXTENDED RESPONSE - Build your exam skills
1.8
Review
2
Measuring health status
2.1
2.2
Self-assessed health status, life expectancy and health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE)
2.3
Mortality (including maternal, infant and under-5)
2.4
Morbidity (including incidence and prevalence)
2.5
Burden of disease including disability-adjusted life year (DALY), years of life lost (YLL) and years lived with disability (YLD)
2.6
2.7
2.8
3
Factors influencing Australia's health status
3.1
3.2
The impact of smoking and vaping on health status in Australia
3.3
The impact of alcohol on health status in Australia
3.4
The impact of overweight and obesity on health status in Australia
3.5
The impact of a low intake of fibre, and the under-consumption of fruit and vegetables and dairy foods on health status in Australia
3.6
The impact of a high intake of fat, salt and sugar on health status in Australia
3.7
3.8
4
Variations in health status between population groups
4.1
4.2
Biological factors contributing to variations in health outcomes
4.3
Sociocultural factors contributing to variations in health outcomes
4.4
Environmental factors contributing to variations in health outcomes
4.5
4.6
4.7
School-Assessed Coursework
Unit 3 AOS 1 Outcome 1
5
Changes in Australia's health status
5.1
5.2
Changes in Australia's health status over time
5.3
Initiatives relating to the 'old' public health and Australia's health status
5.4
The biomedical approach to health
5.5
Development of the social model of health and the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
5.6
The relationship between the biomedical and social models of health
5.7
5.8
5.9
6
Targets of health promotion in Australia
6.1
6.2
The role of health promotion in improving population health
6.3
Programs to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' health
6.4
Promoting healthy eating in Australia
6.5
The challenges in bringing about nutritional change
6.6
6.7
6.8
7
Australia's health system
7.1
7.2
Medicare
7.3
The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and the National Disability Insurance Scheme
7.4
Private health insurance
7.5
Funding and sustainability and the role of Australia's health system
7.6
Access and equity and the role of Australia's health system
7.7
7.8
7.9
Unit 3 AOS 2 Outcome 2
8
Comparing health status and human development across countries
8.1
8.2
Economic characteristics of low-, middle- and high-income countries
8.3
Social and environmental characteristics of low-, middle- and high-income countries
8.4
The concept of human development
8.5
The advantages and limitations of the Human Development Index
8.6
Similarities and differences in health status and human development in low-, middle- and high-income countries
8.7
Access to safe water and sanitation as factors affecting health status and human development
8.8
Poverty as a factor affecting health status and human development
8.9
Discrimination as a factor affecting health status and human development
8.10
8.11
8.12
9
Sustainability
9.1
9.2
The economic dimension of sustainability
9.3
The social dimension of sustainability
9.4
The environmental dimension of sustainability
9.5
9.6
9.7
10
Global trends and health and human development
10.1
10.2
Climate change
10.3
Conflict and mass migration
10.4
Increased world trade (global distribution and marketing of tobacco, e-cigarette products and processed foods)
10.5
Tourism
10.6
Digital technologies
10.7
10.8
10.9
Unit 4 AOS 1 Outcome 1
11
Sustainable Development Goals
11.1
11.2
Understanding the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals and key features of SDG 3
11.3
Key features of Sustainable Development Goal 3 - Good health and wellbeing
11.4
SDG 3 Key feature of maternal and child health and wellbeing
11.5
SDG 3 Key feature of communicable diseases
11.6
SDG 3 Key feature of non-communicable diseases
11.7
The relationships between SDG 3 and SDG 1
11.8
The relationships between SDG 3 and SDG 2
11.9
The relationships between SDG 3 and SDG 4
11.10
The relationships between SDG 3 and SDG 5
11.11
The relationships between SDG 3 and SDG 6
11.12
The relationships between SDG 3 and SDG 12
11.13
11.14
11.15
12
Promoting global health and human development
12.1
12.2
The World Health Organization
12.3
Aid
12.4
Australia's aid program
12.5
Features of effective aid programs
12.6
Taking individual and social action
12.7
12.8
12.9
Unit 4 AOS 2 Outcome 2
Common conditions and diseases
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