Health Metrics

Question 1

accounts for premature mortality and how many years a person might have lived if he/she had not died prematurely

Answer 1

years of potential life lost

Question 2

summarizes a person’s health as a single score

Answer 2

health status index

Question 3

seeks to rate a person’s health based on several separate dimensions based on records and direct injury

Answer 3

health profile

Question 4

incorporates both quality of life and life expectancy, that is perceived impact of illness, pain and disability on the patient’s quality of life

Answer 4

quality adjusted life years

Question 5

measure that attempts to combine mortality and morbidity into one index wherein the person is expected to be free of serious disease

Answer 5

healthy life expectancy

Question 6

captures both the length of life lost from premature death and the time spent in poor health

Answer 6

disability adjusted life years

Question 7

measures a person’s ability to independently do activities

Answer 7

ADL index

Question 8

scales used for cancer patients

Answer 8

Karnofsky index

Question 9

scales used for stroke patients

Answer 9

Barthel index

Question 10

when can you say that a population is in good health

Answer 10

when there is:
low age-adjusted death rate
high life expectancy