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• Using examples, ‘old’ public health model

  ‘Old’ public health refers to an approach to health that was developed at the beginning of the 20th century. This approach involved improving the safety of the physical environment and developing public health programs to prevent communicable disease.For example, this involved practices, such as improving the quality of housing.
• New public health + example


  By contrast, ‘new’ public health refers to a contemporary approach to public health that involves preventing diseases from occurring through promoting behavioural and lifestyle change.3For example, this involves practices, such as health promotion, that encourage people to change their behaviour to prevent developing conditions that are often influenced by lifestyle choices, such as obesity.
• Develop personal skills


  The Department of Health’s ‘Save Lives. Save 000 for emergencies’ campaign demonstrates the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion action area ‘develop personal skills. ’This is because the campaign provides people with information about which health services are most appropriate in different situations, such as seeing a local GP for minor injuries, which helps people to take control of and improve their own health and wellbeing.
• Describe how the biomedical approach to health promoted health status in Australia.

  The biomedical approach to health involved developing medical technologies, such as vaccines.This helped to prevent the transmission of diseases, such as influenza, which decreased mortality rates in Australia.