Public Health: Australia

Running Head: PUBLIC HEALTH
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Public Health
Public Health: Australia
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4/9/2019

Public Health
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Contents
Public Health of Australia..........................................................................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Heart diseases in Australia.........................................................................................................2
The nature of the health problem...........................................................................................2
The population affected by the problem................................................................................4
The magnitude of the health problem within targeted population.........................................4
The distal and proximal determinants of the chosen health problem.....................................4
The core features of the targeted population..........................................................................4
The reason why an intervention health strategy is needed.....................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................6

Public Health
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Public Health of Australia
Introduction
The report is focused on public health policies and practices in favour of Australian
public. To brief to the Minister for Health, the paper is going to outline one health issue of
Australia in order to intervene for cultivating population health. Additionally, within this
paper the health management strategies and their justification based on priority of the the
health problems will be covered. Therefore, this detailed research over a chronic health issue
of the Australian public will be conducted in order to brief it to the Minister of Health.
Heart diseases in Australia
In this context, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in Australia mainly constitute heart
stroke and heart diseases. They are greatly prevalent as 4.2 million Australians are presently
living with CVDs (AIHW, 2018). The CVDs are the main cause of avertable hospital
admissions and hence causes 30 per cent of total deaths within Australia (Beg, Vos, &
Barker, 2009). Heart diseases are the leading causes of the fatal health burden of diseases at
around 23 per cent. In addition, CVD is causing total burden of heart diseases at 15%. This
research is mainly dedicated to briefing this health issue to the Minister of Health so that
prevention and cure can be achieved easily with the help of improved public health policies
and practices (Beg, Vos, & Barker, 2009).
The nature of the health problem
The nature of this chosen health problem can be easily seen as heart disease is
a main cause of deaths within Australia, as sources said 43,477 deaths have been caused due
to CVD in Australia during the year 2017 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2011).
Moreover, CVD often kills 1 Australian every 12 minutes. In this way, CVD is among
Australia's critical health issues and despite so many improvements during the last some
decades, it is remaining one of the biggest health burdens of Australian economy (Macri,
2016). Furthermore, some important attributes of the heart diseases in Australia are as
follows:
 CVDs are stroke, heart and blood vessel related diseases.