Unit+3+-+Measuring+Health+Status

Defining Health handout: [|Defining Health handout.doc]

Understanding the relationship between the components of health handout: [|Understanding the relationship between the components of health handout.doc]

Understanding statistics:
 * 1) [|Burden of Disease Australia - 1996.doc]
 * 2) [|Victorian Burden of Disease Study handout.doc]
 * 3) [|Healthy Life Expectancy.doc]

Determinants of health:
 * 1) [|Variations in health status.pdf]
 * 2) [|Researching the factors that account for variations in health status.pdf]
 * 3) [|Jack.pdf]
 * 4) [|Influences on my health status.pdf]

The following are all resources that may be used to develop your understanding of this topic area: __//Measuring the Health Status of Australians (VHETTA)//__ [|Life Expectancy at Birth Victoria 1997-2001.pdf] [|Life Expectancy.doc] [|World Health Organisation Australian Profile.pdf] [|Cancer Wars.pdf] [|How long will you live.doc] [|Cancer on rise, but no death sentence.doc] [|Ten Tips for Living Longer.pdf] [|Burden of Disease.pdf]

__//Variations in Health Status (VHETTA)// [|Obesity.pdf] [|The battle for our health and our hearts.pdf] [|Australians & Americans are the world's fattest.pdf] [|Factors influencing health status over the lifespan.pdf] [|Use your Noodles, Kids Told.pdf] [|Slow build-up to a heart rending end.pdf]__