PDHPE: Health Priorities in Australia

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's health gateway provides links to evidence-based feature articles, fact files, videos on the latest health information.

Australian epidemiological statistics for life expectancy and Australia's health profile.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) publishes information on the National Health Priority Areas (NHPAs) and their associated indicators and risk factors, across the Australian population and focusing on particular populations of interest. See the individual subject sections for the latest AIHW information on them.

This site is the Australian Government Department of Health’s Indigenous health website. This site contains Indigenous health information from mainstream areas of the Department of Health as well as from the Indigenous and Rural Health Division.

This site is for The National Rural Health Alliance, Australia’s peak non-government organisation for rural and remote health. Its vision is good health and wellbeing in rural and remote Australia.

The site provides links to information regarding overseas-born Australians and health status.

The site provides links to specific parts of AIHW biennial reports, Australia’s Health, from 1996 - 2012.

This site is a summary of a bulletin by AIHW examining how health problems affect health status of people with disability in Australia with a focus on prevalence and age at onset of some significant long term health conditions and relevant health risk factors and behaviours. The complete bulletin can be downloaded by following the ‘publication’ link.

This site provides statistics relating to Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and risk factors.

This document can be downloaded to provided information on various CVDs including coronary heart disease, stroke, cardiomyopathy and peripheral vascular disease. Epidemiological data and risk factors are also identified.

This site provides evidence-based information about different types of cancer, including symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, support and statistics. Cancer Australia is an organisation established by the Australian Government.

This site provides links to the Cancer Council Australia’s various health promotion strategies and initiatives. Policies address prevention, early detection, treatment and supportive care.

This site produced by Diabetes Australia provides epidemiological data about diabetes and further links to risk factors.

This site by Diabetes Australia provides links to various health promotion strategies addressing diabetes.

This site provides epidemiological data on asthma in Australia by the AIHW.

This site by AIHW provides epidemiological data relating to injury.

This site produced by Beyondblue provides epidemiological data on anxiety and depression. Links are also available to recovery and treatment options.

This site provides links to a number of health promotion programs by Beyondblue to address mental health in Australia.

Newspaper article in The Age, May 26, 2014.

The site is produced by the Victorian State Government and provides information on the philosophies, uses and examples of complementary (alternative) therapies. Links can be followed to more detailed examples of complementary therapies.

This site by the World Health Organisation (WHO) outlines the Ottawa Charter Health Promotion and details each of the action areas.

The site provides links to a number of health promotion campaigns and initiatives addressing the NHPAs.

This webpage generates a multiple-choice test for both HSC cores from past exam papers 2010 to 2018.

This website provides scaffolds for extended response questions using the glossary of key words.

This webpage provides a catlogue of suitable video links, set up on YouTube, for the HSC PDHPE course.