Measuring Health in Populations - Lecture Fifteen

Question 1

Quantifying the Burden of Disease for mortality or morbidity

Answer 1

Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) where 1 DALY = one year of healthy life lost due to premature mortality (Years of Life Lost - YLL) + for people living with a health condition or its consequences (Years Lost due to Disability - YLD)
This measures the gap between a populations current health status and ideal health status

Question 2

Morbidity

Answer 2

Any departure from physiological or psychological wellbeing

Question 3

Population growth

Answer 3

The population levels will eventually stop increasing due to women producing less children

Question 4

Demographic Transition

Answer 4

Changes in population death and birth rates over time

Question 5

Epidemiological Transition

Answer 5

Changes in population disease patterns over time including both communicable and non-communicable

Question 6

Significance of ageing

Answer 6

Morbidity occurs later in life which essentially means; a slower progression from chronic disease to disability, this will also create an increase in milder chronic disease but a decrease in the period of time a person experiences severe disability
Overall this maintains function and improves wellbeing
“Healthy older persons are a resource for their families, communities and the economy.”