10 11, 2016

Australia’s Health 2016 – Socioeconomically Disadvantaged People

By |2016-11-10T06:00:57+10:00November 10th, 2016|Articles, Australia's Health 2016, Health Priorities in Australia, HSC PDHPE, What are the priority issues for improving Australia’s health?|Comments Off on Australia’s Health 2016 – Socioeconomically Disadvantaged People

Australia's Institute of Health and Welfare released Australia's Health 2016 earlier this year and the up-date has further confirmed the poor health statues of socioeconomically disadvantaged people. Australia's Health 2016 indicated that socioeconomically disadvantaged people were more likely to suffer illness, disability, and have a lower life expectancy. Socioeconomically disadvantaged people were 1.3 times more likely to suffer asthma, [...]

8 11, 2016

Australia’s Health 2016 – Mental Health

By |2016-11-08T06:32:36+10:00November 8th, 2016|Articles, Australia's Health 2016, Health Priorities in Australia, How are priority issues for Australia's health identified?, HSC PDHPE, What are the priority issues for improving Australia’s health?|Comments Off on Australia’s Health 2016 – Mental Health

Australian's aged 18-85 experiencing a mental health disorder in their lifetime. Continuing to look at Australia's Health 2016, this post will focus on the mental health of Australians as a major health topic and one of our priority health issues for HSC PDHPE. Australia's Health 2016 indicates that almost half of Australians will experience [...]

22 09, 2016

Australia’s Health 2016 – Cancer

By |2016-09-23T15:10:36+10:00September 22nd, 2016|Articles, Australia's Health 2016, Health Priorities in Australia, What are the priority issues for improving Australia’s health?|Comments Off on Australia’s Health 2016 – Cancer

Australia's Health 2016 identified that cancer is not the number 1 cause of death in Australia. Cancer includes a large number of cancer types and it is the combination of these that makes cancer the number 1 cause, as there are over 100 types of cancer. Although the number of new cases of cancer continues [...]

21 09, 2016

Australia’s Health 2016 – Part 1

By |2016-09-21T14:13:05+10:00September 21st, 2016|Articles, Australia's Health 2016, Health Priorities in Australia, HSC PDHPE, What are the priority issues for improving Australia’s health?|Comments Off on Australia’s Health 2016 – Part 1

In recent weeks the Australian institute of Health and Welfare released Australia's Health 2016. This document is the most up-to-date document on the health of Australia as a nation. This article is the first in a series to highlight some of the key things from Australia's Health 2016 that are relevant for HSC PDHPE students. First, the [...]

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