Health Status Flashcards
Health Status
An individual or population’s overall health, taking into account various aspects such as life expectancy, amount of disability and levels of disease risk factors.
Self-Assessed Health Status
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 provides a broad picture of a population’s overall health and wellbeing.
Life Expectancy
An indication of how long a person can expect to live, if death rates do not change.
HALE
Healthy Adjusted Life Expectancy
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.
Mortality
Refers to death, particularly of a group or population level.
Morbidity
Refers to ill health in an individual and the levels of ill health of a population or group
Morbidity Rate
A measure of how many people suffer from a particular condition during a given period of time.
Incidence
The number or rate of new cases of a disease during a specified time, usually a 12 month period.
Prevalence
The number of proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time.
Burden of Disease
A measure of the impact of disease and injuries, specifically it measures the gap between current health status and in ideal situation to where everyone in the old age free of disease and disability. Burden of disease is measured in a unit called DALY.
DALY
Disability Adjusted Life year
A measure of burden of disease. One DALY equals one year of healthy life lost due to premature death and time lived with illness, disease or injury.
YLD and YLL
YLL - Years of Life Lost
A measure of how many years of expected life is lost due to premature death.
YLD - Years Lost due to Disability
A measure of how many healthy years of life are lost due to illness, injury or disability.
