Week 1 DALY

Question 1

What is Daly?

Answer 1

measure used to calculate the overall burden the specified diseases have on a community/population; helpful to identify and prioritise which disease causes the most harm

Question 2

How to calculate Daly?

Answer 2

YLD (years lived with disability) + YLL (years life lost)

Question 3

What are the factors that threaten life expectancy and what are they divided by?

Answer 3

Structural factors (developing countries): diseases, bad housing, malnutrition and child mortality

Lifestyle factors (developed countries): smoking, substance abuse, sleep and fitness

Question 4

What are the 3 goals of health comm

Answer 4

1) to motivate people’s decisions
2) to change behaviour
3) to increase understanding of health-related issues

Question 5

What are some key characteristics of Health Comm

Answer 5

1) multidisciplinary, uses different theoretical frameworks for different areas
2)people-centered
3)evidence-based

Question 6

What is in the health comm environment?

Answer 6

1) communities and other key groups
2) political environment
3) social environment
4) recommended health or social behaviour/produce

Question 7

What is in the health comm cycle?

Answer 7

3 continuous stages: planning, implementation and monitoring, evaluation, feedback and refinement

Question 8

What is global burden of disease (GBD)?

Answer 8

project that estimates the number of healthy life years lost globally; it is the sum of mortality and morbidity (the prevalent diseases) and can be measured by DALYs