The cost of health care

Section B: extended response (10 marks)

Australia’s health system (Medicare, PBS) – access, equity, financial protection; poverty and out-of-pocket costs in LMICs; WHO priorities; SDG 1 and SDG 3 (universal health coverage)

how Australia’s health system promotes access and equity and protects Australians from financial hardship
the implications of out-of-pocket health costs for health status and human development in low- and middle-income countries such as Country N
how progress towards the WHO’s priorities and SDG 3, together with SDG 1 ‘No poverty’, could improve health and human development.

Section A: what each question tests (80 marks)

Unit 3 AOS 1: 27 marksUnit 3 AOS 2: 21 marksUnit 4 AOS 1: 16 marksUnit 4 AOS 2: 16 marks

Q	Key knowledge	Area of Study	Marks
1	Optimal health and wellbeing as a resource nationally and globally	Unit 3 AOS 1	6
2	Life expectancy and HALE – interpreting trends	Unit 3 AOS 1	7
3	Nutritional imbalance – high intake of salt	Unit 3 AOS 1	4
4	Interaction of biological and environmental factors	Unit 3 AOS 1	5
5	Overweight and obesity – variations by socioeconomic status	Unit 3 AOS 1	5
6	Improvements since 1900 – old public health and medical technology	Unit 3 AOS 2	7
7	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health program; Ottawa Charter; social justice	Unit 3 AOS 2	8
8	Australian Dietary Guidelines (Guideline 3); commercial factors	Unit 3 AOS 2	6
9	Human development – comparing Australia with another country; HDI advantages	Unit 4 AOS 1	6
10	Global trends – climate change (rising sea levels) and mass migration	Unit 4 AOS 1	5
11	Similarities in health status between countries – access to safe water	Unit 4 AOS 1	5
12	SDG 3 key features – substance abuse and road traffic deaths	Unit 4 AOS 2	6
13	Evaluating an aid program	Unit 4 AOS 2	6
14	Individual and social action	Unit 4 AOS 2	4