Unit+1+-+The+Health+and+development+of+Australia's+youth

**Resource websites: Gathering information on Youth Health issues**

 * Kellie Curtis**

==**"On completion of this unit the student should be able to outline health issues relevant to Australia’s youth and, in relation to a specific health issue, analyse strategies or programs that have an impact on youth health and development." (Health and Human Development: Victorian Certificate of Education Study Design, 2010–2013). These resources can be used by students to gather information about specific health issues as well as looking at protective factors, statistics and programs.**==

**I had the students research a website (allocated at random) and had them report on what they found they were to include:**

 * ==**A description of the issue and why it is an issue for youth (or give an example of the information that could be found).**==
 * ==**Relevant statistics in relation to the incidence, prevalence and trend (changes over time).**==
 * ==**Impact of the issue on health.**==
 * ==**Impact on development on the development of youth.**==
 * ==**Determinants that act as protective and/or risk factors for the issue.**==
 * ==**Their opinion on the usefulness of the website and how/why it would be used.**==
 * ==**A summary of how someone they know would use the website if they were experiencing the issue or needed information.**==

==**Their resource descriptions were presented on an A4 sheet, they were encouraged to use concise summaries, subheadings, pictures and tables so make it easy for the reader to use and find and understand the information. We then collated their work and turned it into a book, one was placed in the health office and the other in the library to be used as a resource for students and also for their SACs.**==

==**This could also form the basis of a SAC for this outcome, more detail would be required though. In this case it was a very basic research exercise to prepare the students for their SAC which is creating a video advertisement with similar criteria.**==