Health Policy and Politics Australia Research Paper 2022

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Introduction – Chronic Disease
 The Australian health sector is facing a big challenge from the persistent impacts of
chronic diseases for example diabetes.
 Peoples' health quality life is also affected by chronic diseases since it causes
consequences to both the economic and social status of an individual.
 In Australia, chronic diseases are a burden on the health sector in causing health
complications to society. It is the leading cause of disability, health disorders, and death
to the Australian peoples (Rheault, Coyer, Jones, & Bonner, 2019).
 In this paper, chronic disease (diabetes) will be discussed relating to health style,
research about the disease, and how business strategically influences by a modern
healthy lifestyle.

Research – Chronic Disease and Trends on Healthy
Lifestyle
 In Australia, more than 11 million of its population that is 50% are reported suffering
from chronic disease. One of the eight people selected is affected by diabetes as part of
chronic diseases.
 About gender, it shows that 52% are female compared to the male, which are 48%.
Social-economic and regional status are the people who also determine the spread of
diabetes.
 National Health Survey (NHS) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has
identified a group of diseases that are termed as a chronic illness leading to diabetes.

Cont.
 Improving healthy human lifestyle is one of the protective measures used to overcome chronic
disease (diabetes) in Australia.
 These health lifestyles involve both a balanced diet and regular physical exercise.
 Poor nutrition is one of the leading cause and risk factors leading to diabetes (Brennan,
Dunstone, & Wakefield, 2018).
 The government and the World Health Organization are playing a significant role in improving
the healthy lifestyle of humans in the sense of reducing the effect of diabetes as one of chronic
disease.