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The Healthcare System, Change and Health Promotion

We estimate HMS-H2 is worth about 28 marks out of 100 under the new Health and Movement Science syllabus. Practise 31 exam-style questions (multiple choice, short answer) with instant marking and a worked solution for every question.

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Topic notes

How Australia's healthcare system is funded and shared between governments and the non-government sector, health expenditure, complementary healthcare, being a critical health consumer, digital health and new technologies, and applying SDGs 3, 4, 10 and 11.

  1. 1What you need to know
  2. 2Who does what: shared responsibility
  3. 3Funding: Medicare, the PBS and private health insurance
  4. 4Health expenditure
  5. 5Complementary healthcare and critical health consumers
  6. 6Technology, digital health and data
  7. 7The Sustainable Development Goals
  8. 8Common mistakes
  9. 9Exam tips
  10. 10Links to other topics
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Example questions

Example 1 · 1 mark · multiple choice

Which statement best describes Medicare?

  1. AUniversal public health insurance funded through taxation
  2. BA private health insurance fund that Australians can choose to join
  3. CA scheme that covers all dental, optical and ambulance costs
  4. DA charity that pays for medicines for people on low incomes

Example 2 · 1 mark · multiple choice

Which health-related service is most typically provided by local government (councils)?

  1. AInspecting food premises and building local pools and parks
  2. BListing medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
  3. CManaging major public hospitals
  4. DSetting the Medicare rebates that patients receive when they visit a GP in their local area

Example 3 · 1 mark · multiple choice

A vitamin product in a pharmacy carries an AUST L number. What does this tell a critical health consumer?

  1. AThe product is subsidised for all Australians by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
  2. BIt is a lower-risk listed medicine whose effectiveness the TGA has not evaluated
  3. CThe product is not regulated by any government authority
  4. DThe TGA has proven the product is effective for the conditions on its label

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