HSC Core 1: HEALTH PRIORITIES
IN AUSTRALIA
Critical Question 1 - How are priority issues for Australia’s health identified?
Measuring Health Status
Role of Epidemiology
The collection and analysis of the data used to make this assessment is known as Epidemiology.
Measures of Epidemiology
• Morbidity: The rates, distribution and trends of illness, disease and injury in a given population.
• Mortality: The number of deaths for a given cause in a given population, over a set time-period…
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