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Unit 3: Community as a resource for healthy living

10 dot points, in syllabus order. Each dot point has a focused answer, with exam-style questions and worked answers where available.

How do health literacy and social capital function as community health resources that build resilience?

Explain health literacy and social capital as community resources and analyse how they build the capacity of a community to access and build resilience

Health literacy and social capital as community health resources, covering the levels of health literacy, bonding and bridging social capital, and how both build a community's resilience.

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How does the salutogenic approach and a sense of coherence explain why some communities stay healthy under pressure?

Explain the salutogenic approach, the ease and dis-ease continuum, the sense of coherence and generalised resistance resources, and apply them to building resilience as a community resource

Salutogenic approach, the ease and dis-ease continuum, Antonovsky's sense of coherence, and generalised resistance resources, and how this strengths-based model frames building resilience as a community health resource.

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How do the five action areas of the Ottawa Charter work together to promote community health?

Explain and apply the five action areas of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion to build resilience as a community resource for a priority health issue

Five action areas of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, how they combine to build community resilience, and how to apply them to a priority issue such as transport safety or homelessness.

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How do you design a diffusion action strategy to spread a healthy innovation through a community?

Apply the diffusion of innovations process variables to design a diffusion action strategy that builds resilience for a community priority issue

Designing a diffusion action strategy, covering the diffusion process variables, the innovation attributes, opinion leaders, and how RE-AIM informs the plan for the IA1 action research.

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How does the health inquiry process structure action research into a community health priority?

Apply the QCAA health inquiry process and the action research approach to investigate a community health priority and recommend evidence-based action

QCAA health inquiry process and action research, covering the inquiry stages, the action research cycle, evidence and reliability, and how this underpins the IA1 action research instrument.

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How can a community build resilience to reduce the burden of a priority issue such as transport safety?

Investigate a Unit 3 elective priority issue (such as transport safety, homelessness or anxiety) and evaluate community action that builds resilience as a health resource

A QCE Health Unit 3 answer using transport safety as a worked Unit 3 elective, showing how to investigate a priority issue, apply determinants and the Ottawa Charter, and evaluate community action that builds resilience.

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How do the determinants of health and the Ottawa Charter explain and address anxiety as a community priority?

Analyse anxiety as a priority issue using the determinants of health and apply the Ottawa Charter and a salutogenic approach to build community resilience

Anxiety elective, covering the determinants that shape community anxiety, its health impact, and how the Ottawa Charter and a salutogenic, strengths-based approach build resilience.

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How do the determinants of health and the Ottawa Charter explain and address homelessness as a community priority?

Analyse homelessness as a priority issue using the determinants of health and apply the Ottawa Charter to build community resilience for people at risk of or experiencing homelessness

Homelessness elective, covering the determinants that drive homelessness, its health consequences, and how the Ottawa Charter and a salutogenic approach build resilience for people at risk.

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How do the determinants of health shape resilience as a community resource?

Analyse how the social, economic, environmental and cultural determinants of health influence the capacity of a community to build and access resilience as a health resource

Determinants of health and how social, economic, environmental and cultural conditions shape a community's capacity to build resilience, plus how to evidence that link in a health inquiry.

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How do health equity and the determinants of health, including global ones, help us judge whether community action is fair?

Analyse health equity and the social gradient of health, with global determinants as background, to judge whether community action is fair

Background for QCE Health Unit 3 on the difference between equity and equality, the social gradient of health, and global determinants of health, used to judge whether community action is fair.

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