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SAC 3: Health Care & Promoting Healthy Eating Flashcards

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Advantages: biomedical model of health

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  • extends life expectancy
  • improves quality of life
  • creates advances in technology and research
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Disadvantages: biomedical model of health

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  • doesn’t always promote good health
  • not always affordable
  • relies on professional health workers and technology which can be costly
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What is the social model of health?

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An approach to health that attempts to address the broader influences on health (social, cultural, environmental and economic factors) rather than the disease or injury itself. In order for health gains to occur the social, economic and environmental determinants must be addressed

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What are the principles of the social model of health?

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AREAS

  • Adresses broader determinants of health
  • Reduces social inequities
  • Empowers individuals and communities
  • Accessibility to health care
  • interSectorial collaboration
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Health promotion:

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The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.

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Ottawa charter for health promotion: what is it?

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It was built to set guidelines for organisations and key stake holders which help to incorporate health promotion ideas into their strategies and campaigns

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Ottawa charter: prerequisites

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  • peace
  • shelter
  • food
  • income
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What are the three strategies for health promotion?

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  • advocate
  • mediate
  • enable
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Biomedical model of health

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  • ‘quick fix’ or ‘band aid’ approach
  • it focuses on the physical or biological aspects of diseases and illnesses. It is a medical model of care practised by doctors and health professionals, and is associated with the diagnosis, cure and treatment of the disease.
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What are the actions of the Ottawa charter?

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Bad, Cats, Smell, Dead Rats

  • build healthy public policy
  • create supportive environment
  • strengthen community action
  • develop personal skills
  • reorient health services
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What’s the mission of vichealth?

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PP, Right Side, Fall Over, Stop Injury, CC

  • promote good health in partnership
  • recognise social and economic determinants influence health
  • promote fairness and oppurtunity for good health
  • support initiatives which promote good health and wellbeing in community and individuals
  • seek to prevent chronic conditions.
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The values that underpin the health care system?

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  • safe
  • effective
  • efficient
  • continuos
  • accessible
  • responsive
  • sustainable
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Definition of Medicare:

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Medicare is Australia’s universal insurance scheme which gives all Australians access to health care which is subsidised by the government.

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Advocate:

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Actions that seek to gain support from governments and societies to make changes necessary to improve the determinants of health for everyone.

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Enable:

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  • achieving EQUITY in health by working with those who experience poor health outcomes. It ensures equal opportunity and resources are available. This includes ensuring access to health care, employment and education by empowering people.

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Mediate:

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  • coordinate all levels of health
  • relates to resolving conflict between groups, due to changes in legislation, funding, policies and the physical and social environment, and producing outcomes that promote health.
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Definition: PHARMACEUTICALS BENEFITS SCHEME

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An initiative to subsidise the cost of a wide range of prescription medication, providing Australians with vital medications at affordable prices.

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VicHealth strategic priorities A-TEAM

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  • encourage regular physical activity
  • prevent tobacco use
  • promote healthy eating
  • prevent harm from alcohol use
  • improve mental wellbeing
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Roles of federal government:

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  • administration of Medicare
  • administration of PBS
  • quarantine
  • funding
  • regulations
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Private health insurance:

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Health insurance which is purchased in addition to Medicare and covers charges not covered by Medicare like physiotherapy and private hospital care

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Role of state government:

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  • delivery of services
    Public hospitals and ambulance services
  • regulatory state- based services
    Licensing GPs and industry regulations
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Role of local government:

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Waste removal
Health inspection
Delivering immunisation

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Involves inter-sectorial collaboration:

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Refers to all different groups working together including government sectors, non-government organisations and the private sector

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Addresses the broader determinants of health:

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Involves addressing the broader determinants of health such as cultural, social, economic and environmental factors.

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Empowers individuals and community:

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Involves giving people choice in the decision affecting their lives and giving people the skills to lead healthier lives.

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Reduces social inequities:

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Involves targeting those who experience barriers to improving their health.

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Build healthy public policy:

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Relates to making laws and policies that encourage healthy choices. Eg: a tax on fast food to make it less affordable for people.

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Creat supportive environment:

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Related to making social and physical environments that promote healthy choices. Eg: food labels displaying traffic lights, sunshades in school grounds.

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Strengthen community action:

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Involves various groups working together to achieve desired outcomes. Eg: workplaces could apply for funding from the state government (through Vichealth) and work with non- government organisations.

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Develop personal skills:

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Involves providing people with the skills they require to lead healthy lives. Eg: teaching school aged children about the value of exercise.

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Reorient health services:

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Related to the health system playing a key part in health promotion. Eg: nurses visiting work places to educate.

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Effective:

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Relates to achieving desired outcomes in an appropriate time frame

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Responsive

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The people are treated with respect and and the health system is client orientated

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Nutrition surveys: what information can you get?

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  • fruit and veg consumption
  • type of milk consumed
  • salt use
  • supplements used.
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Nutrition surveys can be used to…

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  • monitor and assess nutrient intake against DGA
  • assist evaluation of current policies to see whether health goals are met
  • inform the development and evaluation of national food regulations.
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Dietary guideline 2:

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Enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods from the five food groups

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Dietary guideline 3:

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Limit intake of foods containing saturated fat, added salt, added sugar and alcohol.

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Guideline 4:

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encourage support and promote breast feeding.

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How does the AGHE promote healthy eating?

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  • helps develop skills and knowledge necessary to choose a nutritious diet.
  • helps reduce risk of health problems later in life
  • provides information about amounts and kinds of food that an individual must eat daily.
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What is the AGHE?

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A food selection tool incorporated into the Australia dietary guidelines. It’s intended to be used by consumers to assist in planning, selecting and consuming adequate proportions of food from the five food groups.

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Nutrition and physical activity surveys can be used by the government…

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They could introduce a tax on goods high in sodium, such as potato chips, meat pies and take away foods. This may encouraged consumers to select other products that lower in sodium (like fruit and veg) promoting healthy eating.

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Private health insurance incentives:

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  • 30% rebate- different percentage rebates for different cost levels
  • lifetime cover: people who take up PHI after their 31st birthday pay an extra 2% on their premiums for every year they are over the age 30.
  • Medicare levy surcharge: people who earn over$84,000 a year and haven’t taken up PHI pay an extra tax known as the Medicare surcharge.
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How is Medicare funded?

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  • Medicare levy: 1.5% of taxable income
  • general taxation
  • Medicare levy surcharge (when you earn over a certain amount and haven’t taken up private health insurance you must pay an extra cost.)

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