HSC PDHPE CORE 1 ( Updated 2024 ) Complete Questions & Answers (Solved) 100% Correct
1. Trends for the survival rates for Cancer:
Answer: Both males and females are increasing
- What contributes to the poor health of Indigenous people?
Answer:
Social factors:e.g. dispossession, dislocation and discrimination. Disadvantages: e.g.education, housing, income, employment. Physical environmental factors.
- What is cardiovascular disease?
Answer: All the diseases and conditions of the heart and blood vessels.
- Risk factors of Cardiovascular disease
Answer:
Non-modifiable: Age, Heredity, Gender
Modifiable: Smoking, High BP, high blood fats, overweight and obesity, lack of physical exercise.
- Protective Factors for Cardiovascular disease
Answer: Maintain healthy BP and Blood Cholesterol, Healthy lifestyle choices (not smoking, food, physically activity, weight).
- Trends/ Statistic of Cancer
Answer:
- Lung cancer is the 2nd most common cause of death for males and 4th for females.
- Increase in overall cancer incidence.
- What are the groups at risk of cancer?
Answer: Smokers, socio-economically disadvantaged, high-fat, low-fibre diet, family history, fair skin, sun exposure, women who have never given birth.
- What is causing the ageing population to grow?
Answer:
- Better technology
- Living longer
- What is community care?
Answer: A program to assist the elderly to manage daily activities within their home.
- What is the private sector?
Answer: private hospitals, specialist doctors, private GPs, physiotherapy, dentistry, pharmacy, 1 / 2
chiropractic, radiology and many other services.
- What is Medicare?
Answer: Allows simple and equitable access to all Australian citizens. Is designed to protect people from costs of sickness. Provides free or subsidised medical care, free public hospital treatments. Based on Universality, equity and simplicity.
- 5 Action areas of the Ottawa Charter
Answer:
- Developing personal skills
- Creating Supportive Environments
- Strengthening community action
- Reorienting health services
- Building healthy public policy
- Health status
Answer: Pattern of the general health of a population over time
- Prevalence
Answer: The number of existing cases of diseases occurring in a population.
- Incidence
Answer: The number of new cases of disease occurring in a population.
16. Observations/statistics gathered via epidemiology help:
Answer: Describe/com- pare the patterns of the health of groups, communities & populations
Identify health needs/allocate health-care resources Evaluate health behaviours/strategies to control/prevent disease
17. Epidemiology uses statistics on:
Answer: Births, deaths, disease prevalance & incidence, hospital use
- Mortality
Answer: Refers to the no. of deaths in a given pop. from a particular cause and/over a period of time
- Morbidity
Answer: The incidence/level of illness, disease or injury in a given pop
- Life expectancy
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Answer: The length of time a person can expect to live referring to the average no. of years of