Analyse a New Zealand health issue
In this internal assessment (done at school, not in an exam), you pick a real New Zealand health issue — things like youth drug use, domestic violence, gambling, or discrimination — and write a detailed analysis of it. You need to explain what the issue is and why it matters, identify the main factors driving it, and recommend practical strategies to make things fairer and better for the people affected. Everything you write must be backed up with real evidence from reliable sources like government websites, health organisations, or research published in the last five years. Note: suicide and eating disorders are specifically off-limits as topics.
You explain what the health issue is and why it matters, describe the main factors that influence it, and suggest some strategies to improve outcomes. Your points are supported by relevant evidence.
Your recommended strategies are more developed — they clearly connect back to both the major factors driving the issue AND the impact those factors have on people's wellbeing. Your evidence is more detailed and specific.
Your analysis tells a clear, connected story: you link the health issue, the factors behind it, and your recommended strategies together in a way that also draws on the big underlying health concepts (like hauora/holistic wellbeing, the socio-ecological perspective, health promotion, and attitudes and values). Your evidence is used consistently and coherently throughout to support this whole picture.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.