AOS 1 - Part 1

Question 1

Define Morbidity

Answer 1

Ill health in an individual or population group

Question 2

Define Mortality

Answer 2

refers to deaths at a group or population level

Question 3

Define Health status

Answer 3

An individual’s or populations level of overall health

Question 4

Define Health indicators

Answer 4

Measurements used to determine health status

Question 5

Define YLL

Answer 5

How many years of life lost due to premature death

Question 6

Define YLD

Answer 6

How many healthy years of life lost due to illness, injury or disability.

Question 7

Define Self-assessed health status

Answer 7

How a person perceives their health at an given time. Can be subjective

Question 8

Define Disability-adjusted life year (DALY)

Answer 8

A measure of overall disease burden, expressed as YLL + YLD

Question 9

Define life expectancy

Answer 9

How long somoene can expect to live for if death rates don’t change

Question 10

Define mortality rate

Answer 10

Number of deaths per 1000 or 100000 people

Question 11

Define burden of disease

Answer 11

A measure of the impact of diseases and injuries. It measures current health status and an ideal health status

Question 12

Define incidence

Answer 12

The rate or number of new cases of a condition

Question 13

Define prevalence

Answer 13

The total current number of cases of a condition at any given time

Question 14

Define under-5 mortality

Answer 14

Death rates of children under the age of 5 over a 12 month period

Question 15

Define maternal mortality ratio

Answer 15

Deaths per 1000 mothers as a result of pregnancy or childbirth, up to 6 weeks after delivery

Question 16

Define under 5 mortality rate

Answer 16

Deaths per 1000 children under the age of 5

Question 16

Define infant mortality

Answer 16

Death rates of infants over a 12 month period

Question 17

Define maternal mortality

Answer 17

Number of deaths of mothers as a result of pregnancy or childbirth, up to 6 weeks after delivery, over a 12-month period

Question 18

Define infant mortality rate

Answer 18

Deaths per 1000 infants

Question 19

Explain interrelationship

Answer 19

The way in which two or more things are related to each other

Question 20

Explain how health is subjective

Answer 20

Everyone has different opinions about health and how some dimensions are more important than others

Question 21

Explain how health is dynamic

Answer 21

Someone’s current health status is constantly fluctuating

Question 22

Provide 1 way that health acts as a resource individually

Answer 22

• living independently
• effectively running a household
• Time for social activities

Question 23

Provide 1 way that health acts a resource nationally

Answer 23

• Higher average income
• Improved life expectancy
• Less strain on health system

Question 24

Provide 1 way that health acts a resource globally

Answer 24

- Promotes sustainability - Reduced war and crime - Promotes economic development

Question 25

Define health and wellbeing

Answer 25

A person's state of physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual existence, characterised by an equilibrium in how they feel about their life.

Question 26

Define health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE)

Answer 26

It is the number of years in full health that a person can expect to live, based on current rates of ill health and mortality.