As always, my answers may not be fully coherent, so don't feel bad/
please ask me to clarify if needed!
And yay, negotiated with work so I get tomorrow off, so
I'll be here all of tomorrow to answer any last-minute questions! (Obviously anyone else can jump in too, sorry for taking over this thread LOL
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For the definitions, i alway get confused between each other because they're so similar. And like i always mix up the words injury/disease/illness 
Shouldn't matter too much???
If you fully understand in your mind exactly what each health status indicator is about, then you can reel through the definitions in your mind until one exactly matches the concept. Before learning a word-for-word definition, you've got to understand what the indicator actually is or does - I found doing that made definitions much easier, especially easier not to mix up. Any particular examples you struggle with.
Injury/disease/illness doesn't really matter, no.
Also: how do you know if you should go to the positive or negatives of a question. Like How does world peace impact on global health and sustainable human development. . Can you say without world peace there will be . . . therefore if there is peace . . . .
Edit: I found a question on a practice exam: 'Explain how differences in political stability contribute to the difference identified in part a (Australia has lower U5MR and male adult mortality rates that pakistan)
- So could i say that: In australia we have political stability which means we have less deaths due to violence and war hence reducing the child and adult mortality rates in comparison to Pakistan who experience political instability and therefore . .
You're fine either way.
Re the edit, that's the perfect general way to answer that sort of question question, well done!
and for MDG #5 -> increasing access to reproductive health services, is that having trained people at the birth, or having a place where women can seek advice about family planning etc?
Both, I think.
Explain how one of the UN action areas aims to promote global health and sustainable human development (4 marks)
Action area: World peace and security
Explanation: Preventing conflict and keeping peace leads to a safer environment where individuals are not at a safety risk. Therefore, they may be able to continue to work and go to school, enabling them to develop to their full potential and enhancing their capabilities and choices as they are empowered to have wider employment options. If tensions are resolved it is unlikely that they will arise again in the future which enables both current and future generations to have same same ability to attend school and work. This means they are more likely to have better employment prospects in the future, allowing them to be able to afford health promoting resources such as nutritious food, thus reducing morbidity and mortality from malnutrition and improving the health status of the country, leading to equity in health status worldwide.
There weren't any questions like this on VCAA exams (that I remember...) or in Checkpoints, so do you think it is unlikely to get such a lengthy question on the exam?
There were a lot of links to be made and I didn't really know how to approach this
I can fully imagine a VCAA exam asking this, personally; you could even get a 6-marker like this (probably split into two, i.e. 3 marks for GH and 3 for SHD).
I might start it with:
The UN employs disarmament, peacekeeping and conflict mediation, which could decrease risk of disputes turning into violent conflicts. Then I'd move straight into the mode of 'how does conflict impact HS/HD' from U4 AOS 1, and just explain a couple of specific ways that conflict influences GH and SHD - like, destroying infrastructure like schools and medical facilities; crop destruction; injury from military action; governments paying for weapons not healthcare/education; etc. Just pick 1-2 and run with those, explaining their impact on GH and SHD, and ignore the rest.
So it's not hard: link to UN, then explain a couple of specific impacts on GH and SHD, and you've earned 4 marks.
In regards to why an MDG is important, what is the safest link to make? Should we link it to a health status indicator or HD or just generally?
Any or all. You just want to show why the current state is bad (because it leads to low health status, inhibits HD, etc.), and thus why we need this MDG. Just think of the biggest baddest impacts of poverty, no education, gender inequality, child mortality, etc., and then explain it - and you should get full marks. If it asks for
two reasons, I'd probably go with health status for one and HD for the other to make them as distinct as possible, but again, it's flexible.
So I just need to clarify something about sustainability:
Question: Explain how undernourishment in developing regions may impact health, HHD and sustainability
That question was in our SAC and I talked about SEE whereas my friend used AAE and both our teachers marked it right.
I'm just confused which one is right because I always used AAE to assess a program and there wasn't any program given in the question. 
SEE is much easier - I can't quite see how you would link this to AAE, anyway. But since AAE is just about how the aspects of something makes it more sustainable/likely to continue in the future, if you can use it appropriately, I imagine it should get marks. But use SEE. (If you gave me an example of how they answered that question, I could be clearer on this).
When it comes to answering questions on sustainability and sustainable human development, what's the difference?
Sustainability = Sustainability
SHD = Sustainability + Human Development (+ in higher mark questions, Health)
So for sustainability questions, you would explain how something influences future generations without compromising the present, and link to social/economic/environmental sustainability; for SHD questions, that would only make up half to one-third of your answer, as the rest would be on HD and possibly health.
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