Assignment 3 (45%) 2,500 words (excluding reference list and appendices)
This assignment asks you to examine an Australian national health priority and identify one way (a strategy) in which health professionals have sought to reduce or prevent the problem. You will be asked to discuss how the strategy was appropriate, focusing on collaboration, sustainability, and capacity building.
You will then be asked to think of a patient you may have had (or make up an imaginary patient) with this health problem who wants to know more about it, and use your information you to explain the wider context of their health problem to them in terms they will easily understand.
The Health Priority
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Ensure that your arguments are supported by evidence from peer-reviewed articles, including a minimum of three epidemiological primary research papers as well as other sources such as websites and government reports.You are encouraged to source the World Health Organization, and other similar sites. Feel free to use appendices to screenshot or copy in tables from your reference articles, websites, etc, to allow the tutor to cross-check your information.Select ONE of the nine Australian Health Priority areas. Search the literature to determine a local area (globally) where this health priority is prevalent (e.g. an area within a state or a state). Identify populations at risk within this region if the prevalence is high,

e.g. women, men, unemployed, Indigenous etc.

Identify ONE important current strategy used to address your chosen health r and briefly describe it. Your chosen s Q Y

should be aimed at prevention, not treatment or management (no diagnostic procedures that detect an illness but do not prevent it).

Identify ONE important current strategy used to address your chosen health priority and brief ly describe it. Your chosen strategy should be aimed at prevention, not treatment or management (no diagnostic procedures that detect an illness but do not prevent it) . However, screening used as a preventative strategy can be included. In addition, your strategy should not merely aim to alleviate signs/symptoms or manage the health issue but be directed at preventing it occurring. DO NOT choose a large and complex

government strategy over a number of years such as the Australian National Diabetes Strategy because you will not have enough words to cover the complete detail needed to show your level of understanding. A simple and targeted strategy will do.

Explain the success of the strategy in preventing the health issue, and consider issues of collaboration, sustainability, and capacity building.Follow the ‘General guidelines f assignments and academic writing’ Q document. Check your assignment using Turnltln, with the draft box located near the top of the Assignments module (may take 24

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Talk to a Patient
1. Introduce a hypothetical patient related to the health area you chose. This may require you to state any of their relevant demographics, e.g. age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status, etc., only factors important to the health area.
Write a script – a language-appropriate dialogue between you and the patient – of what you discussi ng the factors which contributed to their condition, the risks of them getting it, and any comparisons that could be made to other groups, etc, to help them understand the wider context. Feel free to brief ly explain how the strategy you examined relates to them. You must use simple words and explanations. Suggestion: present your information as answerino.__ patient questions, like a verbal interao Q where the patient has asked about di· . . .t aspects and you respond to that (but be aware that patients may not always know
what questions to ask, and you may need to

5. Follow the ‘General guidelines for assignments and academic writing’ document. Check your assignment using Turnltln, with the draft box located near the top of the Assignments module (may take 24 hours to return)
Talk to a Patient
1. Introduce a hypothetical patient related to the health area you chose. This may require you to state any of their relevant demographics, e.g.age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status, etc., only factors important to the health area.
Write a script – a language-appropriate dialogue between you and the patient – of what you discussing the factors which contributed to their condition, the risks of them getting it, and any comparisons that could be made to other groups, etc, to help them understand the wider context. Feel free to briefly explain how the strategy you examined relates to them. You must L
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present your information as answering patient questions, like a verbal interaction where the patient has asked about different