Health status indicators

Question 1

Incidence

Answer 1

refers to the number of new cases of a particular disease or condition that arise in a population in a certain period of time

Question 2

what is a health status

Answer 2

refers to an individual or population’s overall health, taking into acount a range of measures, such as life expectancy and experiences of illness, disability and disease

Question 3

prevelence

Answer 3

refers to the number of cases of a particular disease or condition that are present in a population at a given point in time

Question 4

Morbidity

Answer 4

refers to ill health in an individual and the levels of ill health in a population group

Question 5

Mortality

Answer 5

refers to the number of deaths in a population

Question 6

burden of disease

Answer 6

measures the impact of living with illness and injury and dying prematurely.

Question 7

Disability - ajusted life years

Answer 7

is a measurement of burden of disease in which one disability - ajusted life year (DALY) equals one healthy year of life lost sue to the experience of a disability or disease (YLD) or premeture death (YLL)

Question 8

years of life lost due to disability (YLD)

Answer 8

refers to the non fatal contrbution to the burden of disease measurement of disability - ajusted life year

Question 9

Years of life lost due to premeture death (YLL)

YLL + YLD = DALY

Answer 9

refers to the fatal contribution to the burden of disease measurment of disability ajusted life year