Measuring the health of a population, the determinants behind the patterns, and the strategies intended to shift them.
These are the statements the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education syllabus makes about Core 1: Health Priorities in Australia. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
The burden of communicable and non-communicable disease, and the difference between prevention, early detection and management.
The social, economic and environmental determinants that produce health inequality, and why individual behaviour is only part of the explanation.
The Ottawa Charter's five action areas and how a real campaign enacts or fails to enact them.
The prevalence and determinants of mental illness, and the difference between a mental health problem and a diagnosed disorder.
Sexual health outcomes and the evidence on what makes education effective rather than merely delivered.
Epidemiology, mortality, morbidity and life expectancy, and what each measure reveals and conceals.
Medicare, private health insurance and the balance between equity of access and sustainability of cost.
The range of non-mainstream care, why people use it, and how to evaluate a claim for safety and effectiveness.
HSC PDHPE - Trial Paper Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Core 1: Health Priorities in Australia are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Personal Development, Health and Physical Education uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Core 1: Health Priorities in Australia opens the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Personal Development, Health and Physical Education dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.