health status indicators

• define: health status

  level of health experienced by an individual/population
• define: health indicators

  collective term of standard statistics used to measure & compare health status
• define: life expectancy

  indication of how long a person can expect to live if death rates don't change
• define: health-adjusted life expectancy

  calculated using morbidity statistics to estimate the number of years of full health a person can expect to live. HALE is years expected of life MINUS years expected of disability, to give years expected of life in full health.
• why is life expectancy dynamic?

  life expectancy is dynamic as it fails to consider the quality of the person's life, and mainly focuses on the quantifiable value of their lives.
• define: mortality

  death in a population
• define: mortality rate

  measure of proportion of a population who die in a 1 year period
• define: morbidity

  refers to ill-health in an individual/level of ill-health in a population/group
• define: prevalence

  total number of cases of a condition at a given time
• define: incidence

  the number of new cases of a condition in a given time
• define: DALY

  disability adjusted life years
• define: burden of disease

  measure of the impact of disease and injuries

  measures the gap between current health status and the ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free of disease/disability
• define: YLL

  years of life lost
• define: YLD

  years of life lost due to disability
• define: maternal mortality rate

  number of deaths of pregnant women before birth/during birth/first 6 weeks after birth, per 100,000 live deaths
• define: infant mortality rate

  number of deaths of infants between birth and their first birthday per 1000 live deaths
• define: health adjusted life expectancy (HALE)

  measure of burden of disease based on life expectancy at birth, but includes an adjustment for time spent in poor health
• define: self-assessed health status

  measures individual's overall preception of their own health status at a given point in time
• why is self-assessed health status subjective?

  self-assessed health status is subjective as it relies on everyone's unique interpretations of their own health status.
• why is u5 mortality rate measured?

  Under-five mortality rate measures child survival. It also reflects the social, economic and environmental conditions in which children (and others in society) live, including their health care.
• why is infant mortality rate measured?

  provide insight into the socio-demographic and lifestyle factors into which Australian children are born and how these affect both life and death chances.
• why is maternal mortality rate measured?

  it provides governments and other agencies with information to help put in place interventions to reduce the risk of death from pregnancy or childbirth.
• why is it important to monitor hale?

  HALE is a measure of health that takes into account mortality and morbidity. It adjusts overall life expectancy by the amount of time lived in less than perfect health. HALE tells us more information about health status than life expectancy alone. The difference between HALE and life expectancy indicates the number of years that a person may live but have poorer health in their later years of life.