Chapter 2H

Question 1

Define health status.

Answer 1

Refers to An individual’s or a population’s overall health, taking into account various aspects such as life expectancy, amount of disability and levels of disease risk factors.

Question 2

Define Morbidity

Answer 2

Morbidity: Refers to ill health in an individual or population or a group.

Question 3

Define Mortality

Answer 3

Mortality: It refers to the number of deaths caused by a particular disease or a condition at a given time

Question 4

Define Incidence

Answer 4

Incidence: it is number of new cases of a disease or a condition reported during specific time period.

Question 5

Define Prevalence

Answer 5

Prevalence: It refers to total number of cases of a particular disease or a condition present in a population at a given time.

Question 6

Define Burden of diseases

Answer 6

Burden of diseases: a Measure of impact of diseases and injuries, specifically it measures the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free from diseases and disability .It is measured in a unit called DALY.

Question 7

Define Years of life lost

Answer 7

Years of life lost: Number of healthy Years of life lost due to premature death.

Question 8

Define Years of life lost due to disability:

Answer 8

Years of life lost due to disability: Number of health years of life lost due to injury, illness or disability.

Question 9

Define Disability adjusted life years

Answer 9

Disability adjusted life years: A measure of burden of disease. One DALY equals to 1 year of healthy life lost due to premature death and time spent with disability, illness or injury.

Question 10

Define Life expectancy:

Answer 10

Life expectancy: It is the number of years a person is expected to live if death rates do not change

Question 11

Define HALE

Answer 11

Health adjusted life expectancy: it is the number of healthy years of life a person is expected to live based on current rates of ill health and mortality.

Question 12

Define Infant mortality rate

Answer 12

Infant mortality rate : The number of deaths of children under 1 year of age per 1000 live births.

Question 13

Define Under 5 mortality rate

Answer 13

Under5 mortality rate:The number of deaths of children under 5 years of age per 1000 live birth rate.

Question 14

Define maternal mortality.

Answer 14

Maternal mortality: Deaths of mother occurring during pregnancy or childbirth.

Question 15

Define self assessed health status

Answer 15

• a measure based on a person’s own opinion about how they feel about their health and wellbeing, their state of mind and their life in general.
It is commonly sourced from population surveys.