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Australia has the fifth highest rate of obesity in the OECD. More than a third of the adult population are overweight and about a third obese. 57% do not take enough exercise. [31] Australian health statistics show that chronic disease such as heart disease, particularly strokes which reflects a more affluent lifestyle is a common cause of ...
Prisoners on average are less healthy and have higher rates of chronic illnesses, infectious diseases, aquired brain injuries and drug use than the general community. [4] [5] People entering prison typically come from extremely disadvantaged backgrounds, and may have under-utilised health care prior to entering custody, [6] as health was viewed as a lower priority than issues including housing ...
Prisoners on average are less healthy and have higher rates of chronic illnesses, infectious diseases, acquired brain injuries and drug use than the general community. [4] [5] People entering prison typically come from extremely disadvantaged backgrounds, and may have under-utilised health care prior to entering custody, [6] as health was viewed as a lower priority than issues including ...
Australia runs on a mixed health care system, with both public and private health care. The public system includes a government run insurance scheme called Medicare, which aids mental health schemes. Each state within Australia has its own management plans for mental health treatment. However, the overarching system and spending remains the ...
A chronic condition (also known as chronic disease or chronic illness) is a health condition or disease that is persistent or otherwise long-lasting in its effects or a disease that comes with time. The term chronic is often applied when the course of the disease lasts for more than three months.
Health insurance in Australia is community rated; health funds cannot take age, gender, pre-existing conditions or other underlying risk factors into account in the calculation of premiums. The largest health fund with a 26.9% market share is Medibank. Medibank was set up to provide competition to private "for-profit" health funds.
The leading cause of death of Australian males was heart disease with 11,016 deaths, followed by lung cancer with 4,995 deaths, and chronic pulmonary disease killing 3,572. All these conditions were mainly attributed to smoking, excessive alcohol use or an unhealthy lifestyle. [ 14 ]
The Flinders Human Behaviour & Health Research Unit (based in Adelaide, South Australia) has developed the Flinders ProgramTM, a generic set of tools and processes that allows for assessment of chronic condition management behaviours, collaborative identification of problems and goal setting leading to the development of individualised care ...