Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

Section B: extended response (10 marks)

Variations in health status between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australians; factors; ACCHOs; Medicare and PBS; social justice; dimensions of health and wellbeing

variations in health status between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australians, and factors that contribute to these variations
how Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations and Australia’s health system can promote health outcomes and social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Section A: what each question tests (80 marks)

Unit 3 AOS 1: 19 marksUnit 3 AOS 2: 18 marksUnit 4 AOS 1: 26 marksUnit 4 AOS 2: 16 marks

Q	Key knowledge	Area of Study	Marks
1	Illness; health and wellbeing as a resource nationally	Unit 3 AOS 1	4
2	Prevalence; variations by socioeconomic status; sociocultural and environmental factors	Unit 3 AOS 1	8
3	Nutritional imbalance (dairy); alcohol and health status indicators	Unit 3 AOS 1	7
4	Old public health v social model of health; role of health promotion	Unit 3 AOS 2	6
5	Australia’s health system – Medicare (funding, access, equity)	Unit 3 AOS 2	6
6	Challenges to nutritional change – commercial, environmental and sociocultural factors	Unit 3 AOS 2	6
7	Concept of human development; HDI dimensions and limitations	Unit 4 AOS 1	5
8	Poverty and inequality as factors in health status and human development	Unit 4 AOS 1	6
9	Sanitation as a factor in health status and human development	Unit 4 AOS 1	5
10	Global trends – digital technologies	Unit 4 AOS 1	6
11	Key features of SDG 3; relationship between SDG 2 and SDG 3	Unit 4 AOS 2	5
12	NGO aid; features of effective aid; social sustainability	Unit 4 AOS 2, Unit 4 AOS 1	9
13	WHO priorities	Unit 4 AOS 2	4
14	Individual and social action	Unit 4 AOS 2	3