Lecture 3: Brain disease

Question 1

PAR

Answer 1

proportion of population who gets a disease because of a certain cause

Question 2

Life expectancy

Answer 2

length of a hypothetical cohort born in a particular year

Question 3

YLL

Answer 3

Years of Life Lost; number of years of potential life lost if dying before a certain age; LE - age you die

Question 4

PYLL

Answer 4

potential years of life lost; #total deaths from specific cause in each age group * average number of years of life lost

Question 5

EYLL

Answer 5

expected years of life lost; number of years lost due to death at any age is equal to the life expectancy at that age

Question 6

HALE

Answer 6

health adjusted life expectancy; total healthy years / # people surviving to age x

Question 7

DFLE

Answer 7

disability-free life expectancy

Question 8

QALY

Answer 8

quality-adjusted life years

Question 9

DALY

Answer 9

disability-adjusted life years; YLL + YLD

Question 10

YLD

Answer 10

years lived with disability; incident cases * average duration * disability weight (DW)

Question 11

SMPH

Answer 11

summary of the measures of population health;

• Unweighted vs weighted
• Generic vs disease specific
• Gap measures vs expectancy measures