Hey guys, as you may or may not be aware, the new HHD study design is out. There have been some changes, so to make it easier for prospective students, I’ve gone through and noted all of the major differences! ;D
Completely new content:
Unit 3 AOS 1
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- Optimal health/wellbeing as a resource (individually, nationally, globally)
Unit 3 AOS 2
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- The concept of ‘old’ public health
- The National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Health promotion specifically in regard to smoking, road safety and skin cancer (replacing NHPAs)
- Initiatives to improve Indigenous health
Unit 4 AOS 1
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- Implications on health from global trends
Unit 4 AOS 2
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- Ways individuals can take social action to improve health
Completely scrapped content:
Unit 3 AOS 1
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- Determinants of health (not sure if 100% gone, or de-emphasised and changed to biological, sociocultural and environmental)
- NHPAs and nutrition :(
Unit 3 AOS 2
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- VicHealth
- Roles of the government
- Values that underpin the Australian health system
Unit 4 AOS 1
Unit 4 AOS 2
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- Sustainable human development: interrelationships between health, human development and sustainability. This is not specified in the new study design, which is odd since this links everything together and is a massive area of the current course (and it’s often a 6-mark question) – so perhaps just less weighted.
- Role of the United Nations
Additions to key knowledge:
Unit 3 AOS 1
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- Addition of emotional and spiritual to dimensions of health
- Explaining the dynamic and subjective nature of health
Unit 3 AOS 2
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- Promoting healthy eating: addition of explaining WHY it is difficult to bring about changes to dietary habits
Unit 4 AOS 1
Unit 4 AOS 2
Removed from key knowledge:
Unit 3 AOS 1
Unit 3 AOS 2
Unit 4 AOS 1
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- Characteristics of developed and developing countries
- Perhaps mortality strata
Unit 4 AOS 2
Other changes:
Unit 3 AOS 1
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- WHO prerequisites moved from Unit 3 AOS 2 --> AOS 1 (now a larger part of the course)
- Old study design: solely on Australia’s health; new study design on global health as well
Unit 3 AOS 2
Unit 4 AOS 1
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- Factors contributing to similarities/differences between health status of countries – VCAA has changed the given factors
Unit 4 AOS 2
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- SDGs: moved from Unit 4 AOS 1 --> AOS 2, and changes in the specific SDGs of focus (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 16 --> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 13), with greater emphasis now on SDG 3
- Aid programs now address the SDGs (the old study design focused on literacy, food security, HIV/AIDS and malaria, immunisation, safe water and sanitation)