How are health priority issues for Australia's health identified?

How are health priority issues for Australia's health identified?

1. 1. Measuring health status

   • 1.1 Role of Epidemiology
     • Evidence based understanding of curent health issues
     • Informed decisions to be made - resource allocation, government funding, action plans for present/future needs
     • Monitoing health status > emerging trends and issues identified early
     • Patterns of disease - age, gender, ethnicity, SES
     • Identifies areas of need > prevention and treatment
     • Limitations
       • Statistical/objective - collate info but doesn't explain why
       • Can't explain why inequalities exist
       • Can't determine contribution of determinants on influencing rates and trends
     • Who uses?
       • Gov
       • Academics
       • Health services
       • Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries
   • 1.2 Measures of Epidemiology
     • Mortality -
     • Inflant Mortality -
     • Morbidity +
     • Life Expectancy +
     • Why - ?
       • Medical tech
       • Education
       • Healthier lifestyles
       • + QOL
       • Inequities reducing
       • National strategies e.g. sun exposure, smoking, PA, drink driving

2. 2. Identifying Priority Health Issues (SPPPCC)

   • 2.1 SJP
     • Equity
     • Diversity
     • Supportive Environment
     • Medicare & PBS
   • 2.2 Priority Population Groups
     • Inequities
       • Identifying risk groups
         • Targete Gov HC funding & HP to reduce prevalnce
   • 2.3 Prevalence of Condition
     • Commonness of condition
       • Morbidity stats
       • Hospitalisations
       • Health surveys
     • Difference for same condition
       • Mortality V morbidity
     • Gov identifies reasons
     • AUS burdens
       • cancer
       • CVD
       • mental
       • Injury
   • 2.4 Potential for Prevention and Early Intervention
     • Behavioural and environmental modifications
       • Food
       • Exercise
       • Alcohol
       • Smoking
       • Stress
     • Resources
       • Smoking
       • Hypertension
       • Obesity
   • 2.5 Costs to the Individual and Community
     • Individual
       • Direct
         • medication/hospital
         • Job loss
         • Travel
       • Indirect
         • Emotional trauma
         • Absenteeism
         • QOL -
     • Community Costs
       • Direct
         • Hospitals
         • Medicare
         • pharmaceutical use
       • Indirect
         • work productivity -
         • absenteeism
         • replacing workers