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VCE Health & Human Development past exams 2023–2025

Every question from the last three VCE Health & Human Development exams, matched to the lesson that teaches it, with class averages from the examiners' reports and worked solutions. VCE Health & Human Development (Year 12) lessons.

2025 Exam

  • Q1a (3 marks, class average 73%): What social health and wellbeing is, with an example showing it is dynamic. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q1b (2 marks, class average 35%): How the physical and mental dimensions of health and wellbeing affect each other. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q2a (2 marks, class average 50%): One similarity and one difference between two Australian healthy eating guides. Lesson: Health Promotion in Action — Australian Case Studies
  • Q2b (3 marks, class average 63%): How one environmental challenge makes it harder to change what people eat. Lesson: Health Promotion in Action — Australian Case Studies
  • Q3a (1 mark, class average 89%): Meaning of self-assessed health status. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q3b (2 marks, class average 70%): One difference between two groups' self-assessed health status, using the graph. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q3c (6 marks, class average 52%): Two sociocultural factors that could explain the difference between the groups. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q4a (4 marks, class average 60%): Two ways smoking or vaping can affect health outcomes in Australia. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends, The Ottawa Charter in Practice
  • Q4b (3 marks, class average 50%): An initiative based on the social model of health that could reduce smoking or vaping. Lesson: Health Promotion — Frameworks and Strategies, The Ottawa Charter in Practice
  • Q4c (4 marks, class average 48%): How less smoking or vaping acts as a resource for individuals and for the nation. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends, Funding and Financing the Health System
  • Q5a (3 marks, class average 33%): A WHO objective and how a cholera vaccination campaign reflects it. Lesson: Global Health Organisations — WHO and NGOs
  • Q5b (3 marks, class average 40%): How a cholera vaccination program could affect one HDI indicator in Zimbabwe. Lesson: Global Health — Patterns and Priorities
  • Q6a (1 mark, class average 63%): Which dimension of sustainability covers equity, birth rates and access to education. Lesson: Aid — Types, Effectiveness, Case Studies
  • Q6b (4 marks, class average 30%): Two examples of social sustainability promoting human development. Lesson: Aid — Types, Effectiveness, Case Studies, Global Health — Patterns and Priorities
  • Q7a (2 marks, class average 50%): How a Koorie kids playgroup could promote health and wellbeing. Lesson: Indigenous Health — Gap and Strategies
  • Q7b (3 marks, class average 37%): How a Koorie kids playgroup could promote social justice. Lesson: Indigenous Health — Gap and Strategies
  • Q8 (6 marks, class average 32%): Analyse Medicare's role in promoting health outcomes through sustainability and equity. Lesson: Medicare and PBS — Strengths and Limitations, Funding and Financing the Health System, Australia's Health System — Structure and Funding
  • Q9a (2 marks, class average 45%): One way to work with an NGO to help prevent violence against women and girls. Lesson: Global Health Organisations — WHO and NGOs
  • Q9b (4 marks, class average 55%): How preventing violence against women and girls promotes two dimensions of health. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends, Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals
  • Q10a (1 mark, class average 92%): One reason populations migrate en masse. Lesson: Global Health — Patterns and Priorities
  • Q10b (6 marks, class average 45%): Analyse the implications of mass migration for the health of those migrating. Lesson: Global Health — Patterns and Priorities, Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q11a (3 marks, class average 60%): How Australia's support of an education partnership promotes one SDG. Lesson: Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals, Aid — Types, Effectiveness, Case Studies
  • Q11b (3 marks, class average 30%): Why Australia works with multilateral organisations on aid projects. Lesson: Aid — Types, Effectiveness, Case Studies
  • Q11c (3 marks, class average 37%): Another feature of effective aid in the partnership and how it promotes human development. Lesson: Aid — Types, Effectiveness, Case Studies, Global Health — Patterns and Priorities
  • Q12 (6 marks, class average 52%): Use two Ottawa Charter action areas to tackle low physical activity in young Australians. Lesson: The Ottawa Charter in Practice
  • Q1 (10 marks, class average 37%): Section B: water and sanitation in high- and low-income countries, health status, and SDG 6 to SDG 3. Lesson: Global Health — Patterns and Priorities, Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals, HHD Exam Strategy and Extended Response

2024 Exam

  • Q1a (2 marks, class average 55%): Outline what DALY and HALE measure. Lesson: Global Health — Burden of Disease, Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q1b (3 marks, class average 50%): How not eating enough fruit could affect Australia's burden of disease. Lesson: Global Health — Burden of Disease, Health Promotion in Action — Australian Case Studies
  • Q2 (3 marks, class average 60%): One Ottawa Charter action area reflected in an Aboriginal community healthy living program. Lesson: The Ottawa Charter in Practice, Indigenous Health — Gap and Strategies
  • Q3 (4 marks, class average 60%): Why food and income are prerequisites for health, and how they improve health. Lesson: The Ottawa Charter in Practice, Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q4 (3 marks, class average 43%): Describe economic sustainability with an example, and how it promotes health. Lesson: Aid — Types, Effectiveness, Case Studies
  • Q5a (2 marks, class average 55%): One trend in overweight and obesity among 15 to 24 year olds over time. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q5b (6 marks, class average 30%): Analyse how two biological factors (not body weight) cause health differences between sexes. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q6a (3 marks, class average 50%): How preventing obesity could change one indicator of health status. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends, Global Health — Burden of Disease
  • Q6b (3 marks, class average 57%): How marketing processed food to children makes better diets hard to achieve. Lesson: Health Promotion in Action — Australian Case Studies
  • Q7 (6 marks, class average 40%): Analyse how PBS funding of medicines promotes access and equity. Lesson: Medicare and PBS — Strengths and Limitations, Funding and Financing the Health System, Australia's Health System — Structure and Funding
  • Q8a (2 marks, class average 60%): Describe bilateral aid and emergency aid. Lesson: Aid — Types, Effectiveness, Case Studies
  • Q8b (4 marks, class average 55%): Two other characteristics of low-income countries and their effect on health status. Lesson: Global Health — Patterns and Priorities
  • Q8c (3 marks, class average 30%): One Australian aid priority reflected in a Pacific disaster preparedness program. Lesson: Aid — Types, Effectiveness, Case Studies
  • Q8d (5 marks, class average 32%): Evaluate the program's impact on human development, using one feature of effective aid. Lesson: Aid — Types, Effectiveness, Case Studies, Global Health — Patterns and Priorities
  • Q9a (3 marks, class average 57%): One example of social action an individual can take to reduce inequality. Lesson: The Role of Individuals and Communities in Health Promotion
  • Q9b (4 marks, class average 48%): How reducing discrimination by sexual orientation and gender identity promotes health. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends, The Role of Individuals and Communities in Health Promotion
  • Q10a (6 marks, class average 53%): Analyse the implications of climate change for health and wellbeing in Pakistan. Lesson: Global Health — Patterns and Priorities, Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q10b (3 marks, class average 40%): One other objective of the SDGs and why it matters. Lesson: Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals
  • Q10c (3 marks, class average 33%): How achieving SDG 13 could promote human development in Pakistan. Lesson: Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals, Global Health — Patterns and Priorities
  • Q10d (4 marks, class average 38%): How achieving SDG 4 helps achieve two key features of SDG 3, using the case study. Lesson: Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals
  • Q11 (4 marks, class average 23%): One WHO priority and how a global tobacco control package reflects it. Lesson: Global Health Organisations — WHO and NGOs, The Ottawa Charter in Practice
  • Q12a (2 marks, class average 40%): Describe the concept of human development. Lesson: Global Health — Patterns and Priorities
  • Q12b (6 marks, class average 48%): How conflict could affect two dimensions of the Human Development Index. Lesson: Global Health — Patterns and Priorities
  • Q13a (4 marks, class average 57%): Use examples to show how mental and social health and wellbeing affect each other. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q13b (2 marks, class average 40%): How mental health and wellbeing acts as a resource nationally. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends, Funding and Financing the Health System
  • Q14 (10 marks, class average 34%): Extended response: how old public health, biomedical care and the Ottawa Charter improved health since 1900. Lesson: Health Promotion — Frameworks and Strategies, The Ottawa Charter in Practice, Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends

2023 Exam

  • Q1a (1 mark, class average 33%): What illness is. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q1b (2 marks, class average 40%): Use an example to explain why illness is subjective. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q1c (2 marks, class average 70%): An example of optimal physical health and how it affects another dimension. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q2a (1 mark, class average 84%): Describe mortality. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q2b (5 marks, class average 60%): How one environmental and one sociocultural factor widen the injury and poisoning death gap. Lesson: Indigenous Health — Gap and Strategies
  • Q3a (2 marks, class average 40%): Use two HDI indicators to explain why the Philippines ranks above Cambodia. Lesson: Global Health — Patterns and Priorities
  • Q3b (2 marks, class average 40%): One advantage and one limitation of the HDI. Lesson: Global Health — Patterns and Priorities
  • Q4 (6 marks, class average 38%): Analyse how digital health technologies for knowledge-sharing affect health and wellbeing. Lesson: Australia's Health System — Structure and Funding
  • Q5a (4 marks, class average 40%): How enough fibre improves two health status indicators, using different conditions. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends, Health Promotion in Action — Australian Case Studies
  • Q5b (2 marks, class average 40%): How the work of Nutrition Australia could increase fibre intake
  • Q5c (4 marks, class average 30%): Strengths and weaknesses of the Australian Dietary Guidelines for increasing fibre intake. Lesson: Health Promotion in Action — Australian Case Studies
  • Q5d (2 marks, class average 65%): One reason Australians may struggle to eat more fibre. Lesson: Health Promotion in Action — Australian Case Studies
  • Q6a (2 marks, class average 40%): Describe DALY as a measure of health status. Lesson: Global Health — Burden of Disease
  • Q6b (6 marks, class average 45%): Analyse how Ottawa Charter health promotion could improve health status for one condition. Lesson: The Ottawa Charter in Practice
  • Q7a (2 marks, class average 75%): Two services covered by Medicare. Lesson: Medicare and PBS — Strengths and Limitations
  • Q7b (4 marks, class average 25%): How Medicare's funding and equity promote health, using a different dimension for each. Lesson: Medicare and PBS — Strengths and Limitations, Funding and Financing the Health System
  • Q7c (2 marks, class average 60%): Two reasons Australians buy private health insurance. Lesson: Australia's Health System — Structure and Funding, Funding and Financing the Health System
  • Q8 (4 marks, class average 45%): Why income is a prerequisite of health, for individuals and globally. Lesson: The Ottawa Charter in Practice, Global Health — Patterns and Priorities
  • Q9a (1 mark, class average 41%): What sanitation is. Lesson: Global Health — Patterns and Priorities
  • Q9b (2 marks, class average 60%): How missing handwashing facilities at school add to children's burden of disease. Lesson: Global Health — Burden of Disease
  • Q9c (3 marks, class average 47%): One social action to improve access to handwashing facilities, and why it would work. Lesson: The Role of Individuals and Communities in Health Promotion, Global Health Organisations — WHO and NGOs
  • Q9d (4 marks, class average 25%): How environmental sustainability promotes two dimensions of health globally. Lesson: Aid — Types, Effectiveness, Case Studies, Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends
  • Q10a (2 marks, class average 55%): One trend in Australian death rates by broad cause since 1907. Lesson: Australia's Health — AIHW Data Trends, Health Promotion — Frameworks and Strategies
  • Q10b (2 marks, class average 45%): One "old" public health measure and its role in lowering death rates. Lesson: Health Promotion — Frameworks and Strategies
  • Q10c (4 marks, class average 38%): One advantage and one limitation of the biomedical approach for one improvement. Lesson: Health Promotion — Frameworks and Strategies
  • Q11a (2 marks, class average 30%): Two Australian aid priorities reflected in an education program in Kiribati. Lesson: Aid — Types, Effectiveness, Case Studies
  • Q11b (3 marks, class average 47%): Identify and describe the type of aid in the Kiribati program. Lesson: Aid — Types, Effectiveness, Case Studies
  • Q11c (4 marks, class average 38%): Two features of the Kiribati program that make it effective. Lesson: Aid — Types, Effectiveness, Case Studies
  • Q11d (4 marks, class average 40%): How the Kiribati program could improve human development. Lesson: Aid — Types, Effectiveness, Case Studies, Global Health — Patterns and Priorities
  • Q12a (2 marks, class average 35%): Describe one SDG other than SDG 3 that could reduce HIV/AIDS. Lesson: Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals
  • Q12b (4 marks, class average 33%): A WHO strategic priority reflected in a World AIDS Day message. Lesson: Global Health Organisations — WHO and NGOs
  • Q13 (10 marks, class average 24%): Extended response: gender inequality, SDG 5 to SDG 3, and NGOs for women and girls in Afghanistan. Lesson: Global Health — Patterns and Priorities, Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals, Global Health Organisations — WHO and NGOs