Health Status

Question 1

Burden of Disease

Answer 1

A measure of the impact of disease and injury, specifically it measures the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free of disease and disability.

Question 2

Disability-adjusted life year (DALY)

Answer 2

A measure of burden of disease. One DALY equals one year of healthy life lost due to illness and/or death.

Question 3

Years of Life Lost (YLL)

Answer 3

A measure of how many years of a persons life expectancy are lost due to premature death.

Question 4

Years Lost due to Disability (YLD)

Answer 4

A measure of how many healthy years of life are lost due to disease, injury or disability.

Question 5

Self-assessed health status

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Life expectancy

Answer 6

The number of years of life, on average, remaining to a person at a specific age if death rates do not change.

Question 7

Health-adjusted life expectancy

Answer 7

The number or years in full health, on average, remaining to an individual based on current rates of ill health and mortality.

Question 8

Morbidity

Answer 8

ill-health in an individual and the levels of ill health in a population or group

Question 9

Incidence

Answer 9

The number of new cases of a particular disease during a given period.

Question 10

Prevalence

Answer 10

The total number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time.

Question 11

Mortality

Answer 11

Death, often at a population level

Question 12

Maternal mortality

Answer 12

The death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site or the pregnancy, from any cause related yo or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental.

Question 13

Maternal mortality ratio

Answer 13

the number of mothers who die as a result of pregnancy or childbirth per 100,000 women who give birth

Question 14

Infant mortality

Answer 14

the death of a child between birth and their first birthday

Question 15

Infant mortality rate

Answer 15

the rate of deaths of infants between birth and their first birthday, usually expressed per 1000 live births

Question 16

Under 5 mortality

Answer 16

the death of a child under the age of 5

Question 17

Under 5 mortality rate (U5MR)

Answer 17

the rate of deaths occurring in children under 5 years of age per 1000 live births