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Core 1: Health Priorities in Australia
Quick questions on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequities: HSC PDHPE Core 1
4short Q&A pairs drawn directly from our worked dot-point answer. For full context and worked exam questions, read the parent dot-point page.
What is individuals?Show answer
Individual choices (smoking, diet, exercise, screening attendance) matter, but the syllabus expects you to frame individual choices inside the determinant structure. A young Aboriginal woman in a remote community without a permanent GP, without safe housing, and on Newstart cannot reasonably be held individually responsible for not attending a 715 health check that does not exist locally.
What is communities?Show answer
Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) are the single most important community-level institution. They deliver primary health care designed by and for Aboriginal communities. There are around 145 ACCHOs nationally (NACCHO 2024). Evidence consistently shows ACCHOs deliver better outcomes per dollar than mainstream services because they are culturally safe, trusted, and locally responsive.
What is governments?Show answer
Federal, state, and territory governments fund the bulk of Indigenous health spending and run national frameworks.
What is voice to Parliament?Show answer
The 2023 referendum proposed a constitutionally enshrined Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament. The referendum was not passed. Government policy on Indigenous health continues under existing frameworks.
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