HHD 'changes in HS' ‘Old Public Health’ & 'Biomedical model'

Question 1

What did the Australian government introduce in response to a bubonic plague outbreak in 1900?

Accepted Answer

Strict quarantine laws

Question 2

From the graph what was the life expectancy at birth for males in 1900?

Accepted Answer

53

Question 3

How has Australia's life expectancy changed over time?

Accepted Answer

Increased

Question 4

What impact did improved housing have on early Australia’s health status?

Accepted Answer

Reduced deaths from diseases such as cholera and pneumonia

Question 5

_______focuses on the physical or biological aspects of disease and illness. It is a medical model practised by doctors

Accepted Answer

Biomedical model

Question 6

This is an example of the biomedical approach - what is it?

Accepted Answer

Chemotherapy

Question 7

What is the trend over time from the following graph?

Accepted Answer

Deaths from Cardiovascular disease have decreased over time

Question 8

What was the first public health measure taken in Australia?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 9

Which is a disadvantage of the Biomedical model?

Accepted Answer

relies on professional health workers/technology & is therefore expensive

Question 10

What prompted the first public health actions taken historically by Australian governments?

Accepted Answer

Death and disability from high rates of infectious diseases

Question 11

A cleaner physical environment reduced deaths from which diseases?

Accepted Answer

Diarrhoea and cholera

Question 12

What did the response to lifestyle diseases emphasize?

Accepted Answer

Individual behaviour change

Question 13

What was the focus of the Commonwealth Department of Health in its early years?

Accepted Answer

Public health

Question 14

Vaccines helped bring huge reductions in death and disability from which diseases?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 15

What caused a shift to health promotion in public health emphasis during the 1950s and 60s?

Accepted Answer

The emergence of lifestyle diseases

Question 16

Biomedical model is also referred to as the band-aid approach because?

Accepted Answer

aims to return people to pre-illness state, ignoring the cause.

Question 17

What was the focus of what is now known as the ‘old public health’?

Accepted Answer

Improvements in the physical environment

Question 18

Which is an advantage of the Biomedical model?

Accepted Answer

Improvesquality of life

Question 19

Males have a higher life expectancy than females since 1900.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

What occurred in 1918-19-19 to cause the increase in respiratory deaths?

Accepted Answer

Spanish Flu

Question 21

From the graph what was the life expectancy at birth for males in 2017?

Accepted Answer

80

Question 22

What was a positive consequence of improved nutrition in early Australia?

Accepted Answer

Immune systems better able to cope with infectious diseases

Question 23

This is an example of the biomedical approach - what is it?

Accepted Answer

X-ray

Question 24

Which is NOT a main group cause of mortality?

Accepted Answer

Diabetes

Question 25

The ways in which governments monitor, regulate and promote health status and prevent disease

Accepted Answer

Public health

Question 26

What significant discovery led to effective treatment of a range of infectious diseases?

Accepted Answer

Vaccines

HHD 'changes in HS' ‘Old Public Health’ & 'Biomedical model'

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