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How are Priority issues for Australia's Health identified?
- Measuring health status
- - role of epidemiology
- - measures of epidemiology
- Identifying priority health issues
- - social justice principles
- - priority population groups
- - prevelance of condition
- - potential for prevention and early intervention
- - costs to thee individual and community
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What are the priority issues for improving Australia's health?
- Groups experiencing health inequities
- - aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- - Socioeconomically disadvantaged people
- - people in rural and remote areas
- - overseas-born people
- - the elderly
- - people with disabilities
- High levels of preventable chronic disease, injury and mental health problems
- - cardiovascular disease
- - cancer (skin, breast and lung)
- - diabetes
- - respiratory disease
- - injury
- - mental health problems and illnesses
- A growing and aging population
- - healthy ageing
- - increased population living with chronic disease and disability
- - demand for health services and workforce shortages
- - availability of carers and volunteers
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What Role do health care facilities and services play in achieving better health for all australian's?
- Health care in Australia
- - range and types of health facilities and services
- - responsibility for health facilities and services
- - equity of access to health facilities and services
- - health care expenditure versus expenditure on early intervention and prevention
- - impact of emerging new treatments and technologies on healthcare, e.g. cost and access, benefits of early detection
- - health insurance: medicare and private
- Complementary and alternative health care approaches
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