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The Australian’s Health Policy PDF

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Public HealthPublic HealthIn this 21st century, chronic diseases pose the greatest health challenge for theWorld countries (Fleming, 2015). The Australian’s Health- Policy Collaboration hasreleased its Health- Tracker report in 2016 which states that Australia stands muchbehind the other comparable countries in managing the risk factors induced chronicdiseases; particularly those are preventable. Obesity or overweight is an importantpublic-health problem with at-least 2 in 3 Australian adults is consideredobese/overweight (AIHW, 2016a) and it is one of the leading risk factors for illness anddeath (AIHW 2016b). In Australia, the prevalence of obesity or overweight among the non-Indigenousadult population is noted to be 63.4% as compared with 71.4% in the Indigenous(Aboriginal & Torres Strait- Islander’s) adult- population. It depicts a wide range ofdifference in the obesity or overweight rate between both the population groups withabout 8% higher rate in Indigenous adults who mostly belong to lower socio-economicstatus (ABS, 2012). When compared to other high income countries, Australia is found to have higherobesity or overweight rates (AHPC, 2016) and among OECD countries, Australia isnoted to rank 30th out of 34 countries, which indicates that Australia lies in the bottom 3rdperformers. AHPC (2016) also suggests that Australian adult population is not tracking-well to achieve the 2025 target of halting the increased obesity or overweight rate at1
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Public Health61.1% and they too trend in a wrong direction showing poorer progress against 2025-target. A DALY (Disability- Adjusted life year) is nothing but the measure of the diseaseburden in terms of the no. of years a person has adjusted/compromised with an illness,disability and/or early death. It is useful to compare the health as well as life-expectancy of varied Nations. The DALY burden for a specific condition is calculated byadding YLL (yrs. of life lost because of premature death) with YLD (yrs. lost with ill-health) (WHO, 2015, AIHW, 2017).According to AIHW (2017), nearly 7% of the total health-burden (DALY) was dueto obesity/overweight; among which 63% were fatal burdens and 84% were non-fatalburdens. DALY was also noted to be higher in males- 7.3% than females- 6.6% in totalburden. The DALY of linked cardio-vascular diseases among Australian adults wasnoted to be 80,394 (49.9%) in males, 37,890 (33.6%) in females and 118,284 (37.9%)in total-adults while DALY in Coronary heart-diseases was found to be 62,220 (35.4%)in males, 23,103 (16.9%) in females & 85,324 (27.3%) in total-adults whereashypertensive heart-diseases was 1,820 (1.0%) in males, 1,456 (1.1%) in females &3,276 (1.0%) in total-adults which shows that obesity/overweight forms a greatest risk-factor for cardiovascular diseases. Australian Government has framed a policy for preventing & managing over-weight and obesity which functions- to advocate the government to establish obesity &over-weight as a national priority; to frame effective strategies to tackle this issue and toallocate funds to develop, implement, evaluate and research about obesity/overweight;2
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