Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Australia
Vlad Iltiakov
Mrs Renwick
Baulkham Hills High School
November 6, 2014
Eryk Bagshaw
Summary:
For people, such as Nick Iliopolous, living past 80 can be expected. Latest information from the
Australian Bureau of Statistics suggest that Australian men can expect to live past 80. The average life
expectancy for males has passed the 80 year barrier, allowing Australia to join countries including
Switzerland, Iceland and Japan where the average life expectancy for both males and females is over 80.
Nick Iliopolous is interviewed, asked about his secrets for his good health in which he responds, The
secret is salad. Only tomatoes and lettuce. Walk for one hour a day and then back to the beach. His
other secret to longevity is having a wife.
Women have passed the 80 barrier nearly a quarter of a decade ago in 1990, but since then, their life
expectancy has only risen to 84.3. Dr Denise Carlton, Director of Demography for ABS states, "It's worth
considering that 80 years is an expectation from birth. Statistically, the older you get, the more likely it
is that you'll live to an even older age.
But another thing to keep in mind is that better life expectancy does not necessarily mean better quality
of life, according to Dr Zaria Hossain of USYD, An ageing population needs to have adequate services.
Canberra Times
Hosted on WA today
Summary
Cavalry Health Care, the overlooker of two private hospitals in Canberra has terminated
its contract with 25 private health insurance funds earlier in the month, leaving over two
million customers to pay out of pocket expenses of around $500. The reason for this is
the jeopardised long-term sustainability of these hospitals because of the low-rates paid
over recent years by insurers.
This is not the first time private health funds have had disputes with hospitals. Recently,
Medibank Private and Ramsay Health Care had a dispute on prices for patients staying
overnight in the hospital, having costs that could affect the wellbeing of patients.
Much of the revenue that is generated by health insurers and private hospitals come from
places that encourage the addition of private health cover to people payment areas.
Although Australia used to have an impressive ranking in terms of residents health, this
has dropped due to cost problems.
Summary:
The World Health Organisation, WHO, defines the social determinants of health as the
conditions of which people are born, grow, live, work and age.
Health Inequities are mostly caused by social determinants. Citizens such as Australian
country people may experience the same circumstances as city people, being exposed
to approximately the same determinants but in comparison to rural, the results are
vastly different.
As addressed by NRHA, income inequality for Rural and Remote areas has increased
over the past few years. Rural and Remote areas are constantly suffering these
disadvantages, having less access to common communications, education and rising
negative trends such as increase smoking in communities.
The Alliance has produced a submission proposing a higher education reform. Frequent
submissions from other organisations show the attempts to address this growing issue.
This article relates to the syllabus as it directly addresses various areas that
are to be covered in the syllabus, even defining Social Determinants of
Health. The information given in this article can be used to answer multiple
questions that can be asked about the Core 1 topic of the HSC syllabus. It
shows the recent actions of its organisation to the address of the issue of
health inequities in Rural and Remote areas, stating and linking trends that
help illustrate the ongoing circumstances. It links to various outcomes
involved in the Syllabus, including the need to be able to explain roles of
various organisations, such as itself, the National Rural Health Alliance.