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Unit 3: Australia's health in a globalised world - AoS 2 Promoting health and wellbeing
Quick questions on Funding, sustainability, access and equity of the Australian health system for VCE Health and Human Development Unit 3 AoS 2
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What is funding?Show answer
Funding refers to how the health system raises and allocates money to pay for services. Australia funds health through:
What is sustainability?Show answer
Sustainability refers to the system's capacity to keep meeting health needs into the future, including funding, workforce and infrastructure. Pressures include an ageing population, rising rates of chronic disease and the high cost of new technology and medicines. The system promotes sustainability through measures such as PBS subsidies negotiated to control medicine costs, the Medicare levy that grows with incomes, and a focus on prevention and health promotion to reduce future demand. A sustainable system protects health and wellbeing because the care available today will still be available tomorrow.
What is access?Show answer
Access refers to people being able to obtain the health services they need, when and where they need them, regardless of who they are. Medicare promotes access by providing free or subsidised treatment to all citizens and permanent residents, and bulk billing removes the upfront cost for many patients. The PBS improves access to affordable medicines. Telehealth has improved access for rural and remote Australians.
What is equity?Show answer
Equity refers to providing care fairly according to need, so that those who need more receive more, reducing health inequalities. The system promotes equity through:
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