Measuring Health Status

Question 1

What is BOD

Answer 1

a measure of the impact of diseases and injuries, specifically it measures the gap between
current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free of disease and disability.
Burden of disease is measured in a unit called the DALY (VCAA).

Question 2

What is U5MR

Answer 2

the number of deaths of children under five years of age per 1000 live births
(WHO, 2008)

Question 3

disability adjusted life years

Answer 3

a measure of BOD and calculated as the years of life lost due to premature death and years lived w disability

Question 4

Mortality

Answer 4

No. of deaths in a population in a given period

Question 5

Morbidity

Answer 5

ill health in an individual and levels of ill health within a population

Question 6

prevalence

Answer 6

number of proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time

Question 7

years of life lost

Answer 7

represents one year of life lost due to premature death

Question 8

years of life lost due to disability

Answer 8

a non fatal component of DALY (complex formula used to calculate YLD, because conditions vary in severity)

Question 9

self assessed health status

Answer 9

a commonly used measure of overall health which reflects a persons perception of their given health at a given point in time.