HHD topic 2 Flashcards
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How is self assessed health status a reliable indicator of health status?
What is health status?
individual’s overall physical, mental, and social well-being, encompassing factors like disease incidence, functioning, and self-assessed health
What are health indicators?
Health status is measured using health indicators. They provide information related to an experience related to health. This displays an in-depth and accurate health assessment.
4 measure of health status:
- Life expectancy
- Self assessed health status
- Morbidity
4 mortality
What is YLL and YLD?
YLL - Years of life lost due to premature death is another way of measuring and comparing mortality.
YLD - Years lost due to disability’) is a measure of the impact of morbidity on a group or population.
What is burden of disease?
combines the data of mortality and morbidity so that conditions that contribute differently to death and illness can be compared.
Describe prevalence
total number of cases of a condition at a given time.
How can asthma affect to health status?
Experiencing asthma could impact the youth individuals life expectancy. This could decrease the percentage of living leading to causing death. It could also affect the mortality of a population by the decrease in life expectancy and a certain population due to the numbers of death this could increase mortality rates in Australia’s youths.
What is morbidity?
ill health like disease, injury and disability in an individual, and the level of ill health in a population.
What is incidence?
useful for identifying which conditions are increasing in diagnosis and which ones are decreasing.
What is mortality?
indication of how many deaths occurred in a population at a certain time for a specific cause or all causes.
What is ‘disability adjusted life years (DALY) and What does 1 DALY equal to.
One DALY equals to a healthy life that has been lost due to death and times with illness in youth years.
This could also be due to diseases or injuries this compares effects of conditions that cause the certain concerns.
