Unit 1 - AOS 1.2

Question 1

What is health status?

Answer 1

An individual’s or population’s overall level of health and wellbeing, taking into account various indicators such as life expectancy, mortality and morbidity.

Question 2

Why is measuring health status useful?

Answer 2

• allows judgements to be made
• trends to be identified
• organisations take action to improve hwb

Question 3

What is self-assessed health status?

Answer 3

• is based on an individual’s own perception of their health and wellbeing.

Question 4

What is life expectancy?

Answer 4

• an indication of how long a person can live
• it is the number of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age if death rates do not change.

Question 5

What is mortality?

Answer 5

Mortality refers to death, particularly at a population level

Question 6

What is YLL?

Answer 6

the years of life lost, due to premature death, where one YLL is equal to one year of life lost due to premature death.

Question 7

What is the mortality rate?

Answer 7

• indication of how many deaths occurred in a population in a given period for a specific cause or for all causes combined.
• usually presented per 100 000 population in a 12-month period.

Question 8

What is morbidity?

Answer 8

Morbidity refers to ill health in an individual and levels of ill health within a population

Question 9

What is incidence?

Answer 9

refers to the number of new cases of a condition in a given period (usually 12 months)

Question 10

What is prevalence?

Answer 10

refers to the total number of cases of a condition at a given time

Question 11

What are mobidity rates?

Answer 11

the rate at which illness or disease occurs in a population.

Question 12

What is YLD?

Answer 12

YLD is one ‘healthy’ year of life lost due to time lived with disease, injury or disability.

Question 13

What is burden of disease?

Answer 13

• measure of the impact of diseases and injuries
• measures the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free of disease and disability.

Question 14

What is DALY?

Answer 14

disability adjusted life years

Question 15

What is used to calculate overall DALY?

Answer 15

YLL + YLD

Question 16

What are rates of hospitalisation?

Answer 16

• Exploring the rate of hospitalisation among youth provides an indication of levels of ill health that require medical treatment.
• occur as a result of requiring care of chronic conditions

Question 17

What is core activity limitation?

Answer 17

• when an individual has difficulty, or requires assistance, with any of the three core activities.
• self-care
• mobility
• communication in own language

Question 18

What is psychological distress?

Answer 18

• relates to unpleasant feelings and emotions that have an impact on an individual’s level of functioning.
• provide info abt level of mental and emotional hwb

Question 19

What is the proportion of indivudals with psychological distress measured by?

Answer 19

Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10).