The Australian Health Care System is made up of a wide array of influences that have ultimately shaped the way the nation functions and responds to health risks and factors. When looking at the health system in Australia, determinants of health, meaning elements of a person’s lifestyle that may be either detrimental or beneficial to their health, or perhaps, contain no change bearing factor, are a key point of interest for health workers. Determinants of health can be described as variants of the regular lifestyle which may change or alter the health of a person, examples of this is biological differences, damaging and beneficial behavioral choices, distribution of resources, living standards, and work conditions. Ultimately, these factors,
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Though there are 2 main subgroups of the behavioral side to health – damaging and beneficial – there are countless factors within those groups that impact on our health. These including, but not limited to obesity, smoking, and alcohol abuse. In the past 20 years, studies have shown that there has been a 10% incline in obesity among Australian adults5, and is said to now be the second highest contributor to Australian health detriment. As excessive body weight can not only induce type 2 diabetes and musculoskeletal conditions, as well as increasing the risk of developing cardiovascular disease as well as some cancers, growing obesity rates have become increasingly alarming to the Australian health system. The Health department of the Australian government has been working towards promoting preventative techniques towards obesity, as well as creating weight loss projects in order to promote healthy living. The Health department has instigated frameworks for the monitoring of junk food advertisements on television which has been revised many times since 2012 in order to create the best possible method to inhibit childhood obesity6. Likewise, in attempt to quell the growing obesity rates of Australian citizens, the government has devised the Shape Up Australia …show more content…
Though daily drinking rates have subsided by 1% across the nation over the past 15 years8, the country is nowhere near healthy in regards to its alcohol consumption levels and has a long way to go. However, been the years of 2010 through 2013, there was an increase of 8% of Australian adolescents abstaining from alcohol consumption, a rise which could be largely due to a boost in alcohol research funding between those years. In 2010, the Australian government spent approximately 7.36 million on this research, which then saw an incline to 9.2 million by 2013, an increase that reflects the earlier statistics of alcohol abuse between those
Though there are 2 main subgroups of the behavioral side to health – damaging and beneficial – there are countless factors within those groups that impact on our health. These including, but not limited to obesity, smoking, and alcohol abuse. In the past 20 years, studies have shown that there has been a 10% incline in obesity among Australian adults5, and is said to now be the second highest contributor to Australian health detriment. As excessive body weight can not only induce type 2 diabetes and musculoskeletal conditions, as well as increasing the risk of developing cardiovascular disease as well as some cancers, growing obesity rates have become increasingly alarming to the Australian health system. The Health department of the Australian government has been working towards promoting preventative techniques towards obesity, as well as creating weight loss projects in order to promote healthy living. The Health department has instigated frameworks for the monitoring of junk food advertisements on television which has been revised many times since 2012 in order to create the best possible method to inhibit childhood obesity6. Likewise, in attempt to quell the growing obesity rates of Australian citizens, the government has devised the Shape Up Australia …show more content…
Though daily drinking rates have subsided by 1% across the nation over the past 15 years8, the country is nowhere near healthy in regards to its alcohol consumption levels and has a long way to go. However, been the years of 2010 through 2013, there was an increase of 8% of Australian adolescents abstaining from alcohol consumption, a rise which could be largely due to a boost in alcohol research funding between those years. In 2010, the Australian government spent approximately 7.36 million on this research, which then saw an incline to 9.2 million by 2013, an increase that reflects the earlier statistics of alcohol abuse between those