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How are health priority issues for Australia's health identified?
- 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
- Statistical/objective - collate
info but doesn't explain why
- Who uses?
- Gov
- Academics
- Health services
- Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development
(OECD) countries
- Gov
- Evidence based
understanding of curent
health issues
- 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
- Medical tech
- Mortality -
- 1.1 Role of Epidemiology
- 2. Identifying Priority Health Issues
(SPPPCC)
- 2.1 SJP
- Equity
- Diversity
- Supportive Environment
- Medicare & PBS
- Equity
- 2.2 Priority Population Groups
- Inequities
- Identifying risk groups
- Targete Gov HC
funding & HP to
reduce prevalnce
- Targete Gov HC
funding & HP to
reduce prevalnce
- Identifying risk groups
- Inequities
- 2.3 Prevalence of Condition
- Commonness of
condition
- Morbidity stats
- Hospitalisations
- Health surveys
- Morbidity stats
- Difference for
same condition
- Mortality V morbidity
- Mortality V morbidity
- Gov identifies reasons
- AUS burdens
- cancer
- CVD
- mental
- Injury
- cancer
- Commonness of
condition
- 2.4 Potential for
Prevention and Early
Intervention
- Behavioural and
environmental
modifications
- Food
- Exercise
- Alcohol
- Smoking
- Stress
- Food
- Resources
- Smoking
- Hypertension
- Obesity
- Smoking
- Behavioural and
environmental
modifications
- 2.5 Costs to the
Individual and
Community
- Individual
- Direct
- medication/hospital
- Job loss
- Travel
- medication/hospital
- Indirect
- Emotional trauma
- Absenteeism
- QOL -
- Emotional trauma
- Direct
- Community Costs
- Direct
- Hospitals
- Medicare
- pharmaceutical use
- Hospitals
- Indirect
- work productivity -
- absenteeism
- replacing workers
- work productivity -
- Direct
- Individual
- 2.1 SJP
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