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Option: Equity and Health
Quick questions on Strategies to address health inequity: HSC PDHPE Equity and Health
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What is aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs)?Show answer
The strongest Australian example. Community-owned primary care designed by and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Around 145 ACCHOs nationally. Consistently outperform mainstream services on engagement, outcomes, and cost per outcome.
What is refugee and CALD community organisations?Show answer
Australian Refugee Health Practice Network, multicultural community health centres, language-specific support services. Reach communities mainstream services struggle to engage.
What is lGBTIQ+ community organisations?Show answer
ACON (NSW), Thorne Harbour Health (Victoria), Q+ Group (Queensland), Living Proud (WA). Community-controlled health services with strong outcomes in HIV prevention, mental health support, and primary care for LGBTIQ+ Australians.
What is disability-led organisations?Show answer
Self-advocacy groups and community-controlled disability services. NDIS reforms have shifted resources but the community-led model continues.
What is rural community-led health?Show answer
Rural communities have organised their own services where mainstream services are absent - community pharmacies, women's centres, men's sheds, suicide prevention coalitions.
What is why community-led works?Show answer
Several reasons consistently emerge from evaluation:
What is limits of individual action?Show answer
The strongest critique of individual-action framing is that it can blame the victim. A young Aboriginal woman in a remote town with no GP cannot reasonably be held individually responsible for skipping her annual health check. Individual action is the right framing for changes that are within the person's control; it is the wrong framing for inequities that require structural response.
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