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Measurements Of Health Flashcards

1
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Why do we measure health

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  1. To establish priorities about health status and problems
  2. Assist in planning, to plan priorities and to have a standard which health promotion interventions can be evaluated
  3. Justify resources, to prove that these resources are effective
  4. Assist in the development of the health profession.
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How do we measure health?

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Negative and Positive variable

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3
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Measures the opposite of health

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Negative variable

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4
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Aka Ill death

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Negative variable

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5
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2 ways to measure negative variable?

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Mortality and morbidity

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Aka well health

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Positive variable

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7
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The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events

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Epidemiology

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8
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the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems

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Epidemiology

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9
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assess risks in terms of the statistical probability of adverse events or death occurring, link between events and identify risk factors varies from negligible to high.

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Epidemiology

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2 ways to measure health as a negative variable.

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Mortality and Morbidity

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11
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another term for death

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Mortality

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12
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the number of deaths per 1000 people per
year

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Crude Death Rate

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measures the death rate, accounting differences in age structure

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Standard Mortality Ratio

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14
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number of deaths in the first year of life per 1000 live births

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Infant Mortality Rate

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15
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the number of deaths in the first 28 days per 1000 live births

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Neonatal Death

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16
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the number of stillbirths and deaths in the first 7 days after birth per 1000 births.

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Perinatal Mortality

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17
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Leading cause of death in 2022

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Ischemic Heart Disease

18
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top 3 leading cause of death in 2022

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  1. Ischemic Heart Disease
  2. Cerebrovascular Disease
  3. Neoplasms
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Top 5 leading cause of death

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  1. Ischemic Heart Disease
  2. Cerebrovascular Disease
  3. Neoplasms
  4. Diabetes
  5. Hypertensive disease
20
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another term for illness

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Morbidity

21
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Indicates if primary prevention is possible

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Natural History and Etiology of the Condition

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Shows severity of the problem and ways in which individuals, families/ communities are affected

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Natural History and Etiology of the Condition

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Shows if there is evidence that exposure to a particular environment

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Causation and Association

24
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Assessing the chance/ probability of a disease/ condition occurring

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Identifying Risk

25
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shows the SCALE OF THE PROBLEM

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Epidemiological Data

26
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the number of new cases of a health event during a given period in a specified population

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Incidence

27
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the frequency with which new health events occur, related to a particular time frame

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Incidence Rate

28
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the population half-way through the period being locked at

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Mid-period

29
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a measure of the number of persons at risk an the time they were at risk

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Person time

30
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the total number of cases of a health event in a specified population

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Prevalence

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the proportion of a population that has a health event at a specified point in time

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Prevalence Rate

32
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during a specified period

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Point prevalence

33
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total lifetime ‘lifetime prevalence’

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prevalence

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Objective Attribute

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Health measure
Health behaviors indicators
Environmental indicators
Socioeconomic indicators

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Subjective Health Measures

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Physical well-being, functional ability and health status
Psychological well-being
Social Health
QOL

36
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● An average of a population may be taken as a measure of health
● Vital statistics is used to measure height, weight, dental status, etc

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Health Measure

37
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Measurement of people’s behavior can be used as a measure of health

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Health Behavior Indicators

38
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Physical and socio environments can be an indicator of health

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Environmental Indicators

39
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● Including educational attainment, occupational status and income
● Socioeconomic Status (SES) in developed countries is often associated with better health

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Socioeconomic indicators

40
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Ability to perform everyday activities such as personal care, degree of mobility, and domestic activities

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Physical well-being, functional ability and health status

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Goldberg’s general health questionnaire (1997) measures minor psychological distress and social dysfunction

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Psychological well-being

42
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Key characteristic is social support, incorporating both the extent of a person’s social networks and perceived adequacy

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Social Health

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