Zusammenfassung der Ressource
National Health Priority Area's (NHPA's)
- What are they?
- Define: diseases or conditions
selected by the government and as
key focus areas for improvements
- involves many stakeholders (gov
and non gov)
- overlooked by a National
Health Priority Action
council
- selected as a result of
- contribute greatly to B.O.D
- potential for significant
improvement
- potential to reduce health inequalities
- potential for health initiatives to be put in place
- The 9 Areas
- Mental Health
- Asthma
- Dementia
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Cancer Control
- Obesity
- Musculoskeletal
conditions & arthritis
- Injury
prevention
and control
- Cardiovascular Health
- Costs
- Direct Costs
- Explanation
- Define: costs associated with preventing
disease or condition and providing health
services to people suffering from it.
- include costs associated with
developing and implementing health
promotions, diagnosis, management
and treatment
- Can put Dollar value $$
- Individual
- those paid by the person
- ambulance, tests, surgery and fees not
covered by medicare or PHI, medicine bot
covered by PBS
- Community
- costs associated with implanting health promotion
strategies and diagnosing/treating the condition which are
paid by the community
- Usually paid by medicqe, PHI or PBS
- costs to operate hospitals, visits to
professionals, implementation of programs
- Indirect Costs
- Explanation
- Define: not directly related to diagnosis or treatment of
disease, but do occur as a result of a person having a
disease.
- financial cost able to be calculated but not constant
- can include paying for things that the individual used to do
- Individual
- loss of income as can't work
- employing someone else to carry out duties
- transport costs
- Community
- loss of productivity
- welfare payments
- loss of tax revenue
- Intangible Costs
- Explantion
- very difficult to put a monetary value on them
- usually emotional
- Define: things that cannot be measured physically
or with a monetary measure, such as pain and
suffering
- Individual
- pain and suffering
- stress
- self esteem
- loss of participation
- Community
- loss of participation
- emotional impacts (grief)
- Health Promotions
- Define: the process of enabling people to increase
control over, and to improve their health
- aim to improve health and reduce costs to
individuals and communities
- change behaviours
- focus is on prevention
- education