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Content: PDHPE Stage 6 HSC Course
9.1 HSC Core 1: Health Priorities in Australia
This module should occupy approximately 30% of total course time.
Module Description
This compulsory module examines the health status of Australians and investigates, in depth, the current health priority issues in Australia. Students identify and justify the choice of priority issues and examine the roles that the health system and health promotion play in achieving better health for all Australians.
In this module, students investigate the following critical questions:
How are priority issues for Australia’s health identified?
What are the priority issues for improving Australia’s health?
What role do health care facilities and services play in achieving better health for all Australians?
What actions are needed to address Australia’s health priorities?
In this module, students learn how health can be promoted by personal and community action and by policies and services at all levels of responsibility. The module introduces concepts of health inequities in Australia that are further explored in the options module Equity and Health.
Outcomes
A student:
H1 describes the nature and justifies the choice of Australia’s health priorities
H2 analyses and explains the health status of Australians in terms of current trends and groups most at risk
H3 analyses the determinants of health and health inequities
H4 argues the case for health promotion based on the Ottawa Charter
H5 explains the different roles and responsibilities of individuals, communities and governments in addressing Australia’s health priorities
H14 argues the benefits of health-promoting actions and choices that promote social justice
H15 critically analyses key issues affecting the health of Australians and proposes ways of working towards better health for all
H16 devises methods of gathering, interpreting and communicating information about health and physical activity concepts.

Year 12 Personal, Development, Health and Physical Education
Core 1- Health Priorities in Australia
This compulsory module examines the health status of Australians and investigates, in depth, the current health priority issues in Australia. Students identify and justify the choice of priority issues and examine the roles that the health system and health promotion play in achieving better health for all Australians.

What actions are needed to address Australia’s health priorities?
health promotion based on the five action areas of the Ottawa Charter

What role do health care facilities and services play in achieving better health for all Australians?
health care in Australia
complementary and alternative health care approaches

What are the priority issues for improving Australia’s health?
groups experiencing health inequities
high levels of preventable chronic disease, injury and mental health problems
a growing and ageing population

How are priority issues for Australia’s health identified?
1. measuring health status
2. identifying priority health issues