PDHPE Study

The study of patterns of diseases, illness or injury and its distribution within groups or populations. It also tells us the life expectancy, mortality, morbidity, infant mortality and the use of health care services

- Carrdiovascular Disease - Cancer - Diabetes - Injury - Mental Health - Respitory Disease

(4pc) - Prevelance of Condition - Principles of Social Justice - Potential for prevention and early intervention - Priority Population Groups - Cost to individual and community

(PEAR) - Government ensures these things happen - Participation - Equity - Access - Rights

(GASDOOR) - Gender - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander - Socio economic disadvantaged - Disabled - Overseas - Older - Rural

(SES) - Socio-cultural - Socio- economic - Environmental

(Dead.Cats.Smell.Really.Bad) Health promotion framework aimed for prevention - Developing Personal Skills - Creating Supportive environment - Strenghtening community action - Reorientating Health services - Building healthy ublic policy

The sectors are: National level – providing coordination and leadership of all sectors State level – develops healthy public policy, provides information to the public, develop frameworks for the public to follow Private – promote health in conjunction with the government and provide a safe working environment. Community – address the social determinants and provide support for community groups and priority population groups. Individuals – should take personal responsibility for their own health

1. Commonwealth Government is concerned mainly with the formation of health policies and control of financing the public health system (Medicare) and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme through the collection of taxes (Public Health Sector).

2. State Government provides health services such as hospital service, mental health programs, dental services, home and community care, child, adolescent and family health services (Public Health Sector).

3. Private Health Sector provides a wide range of services such as private hospital, dentists and alternative medicine (Private Health Sector).

4. Local Government is concerned with immunisations and environmental control; eg sanitation and hygiene (Public Health Sector).

5. Community Groups promotes health – for example, the Asthma Foundation and Diabetes Australia (Private Health Sector).

The role of Health Care system in Australia is to achieve a delicate balance between resources for prevention and resources for treatment. The most important feature of health care is that equity of access to health services is important in health and well-being of all Australians.

- Introduced in 1983 - Is partly funded by all tax payers who pay a levy - Medicare is designed as a universal system, which is equitable to all, and is simple to use