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Measurements of Health Status

Measurements of Health Status. What is Health Status??!!!. Health Status is an overall level of health, looking at and taking into account various factors such as life expectancy, amount of disability and levels of disease risk factors.

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Measurements of Health Status

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  1. Measurements of Health Status

  2. What is Health Status??!!! • Health Status is an overall level of health, looking at and taking into account various factors such as life expectancy, amount of disability and levels of disease risk factors. • Health status refers to both the individual and a population. Australia’s health status reflects the individual health status of each individual in Australia as they are combined.

  3. How is it measured? • The data that is collected is interpreted in different ways, looking at trends, mortality and morbidity plus many more. • This gives us data that the government can use to highlight areas for improvement.

  4. Life Expectancy • Is an approximation of the total number of years that a person is expected to live, from birth to death. • The life expectancy in Australia continues to extend. What reason/s do you think the life expectancy has increased? What reasons can you give for the difference between male and females?

  5. Mortality and Morbidity • Mortality: refers to the numbers of deaths caused by a particular disease, illness or other environmental factors. • Morbidity: refers to the rate at which a particular disease or illness occurs within a population.

  6. Trends • Trends are an extremely important factor in health status. • Trends are a long term general movement or change in frequency usually upwards or downwards. • What is the trend in the below graph?

  7. Incidence and Prevalence • Incidence is the number or rate of new cases of a particular condition during a specific time. • Prevalence refers to the total number of people experiencing a particular condition at a specific time.

  8. Disability adjusted life years (DALYs) • When we look at the data produced by the mortality and morbidity figures it fails to include people who are not ill but have some limited function which affects their everyday life. • We measure this by DALYs. • DALYs are a measure of the years of healthy life lost due to premature death, illness or injury. One DALY is a lost year of ‘healthy’ life. • It was designed to enable international comparative assessments of health.

  9. DALYs • Is broken up into 2 sections: YLL and YLD. • YLL = Years of life lost due to premature mortality. • YLD = Years of healthy life lost due to disability, illness or injury. • Scenario: John died at the age of 72 in 2005, he had been living with prostate cancer for the past 10 years and was receiving treatment for it. What was his DALY’s?

  10. Burden of disease • 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 disability. Burden of disease is measured in a unit called the DALYs. • Complete the handout with the person next to you, brainstorming ideas for Q1 together.

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