AOS1 HHD

• Health Status


  An individual's or a population's overall level of health and wellbeing, taking into account various aspects such as life expectancy, amount of disability and levels of disease risk factors.
• Life expectancy


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


  Refers to ill health in an individual and the levels of ill health in a population or group.
• Mortality


  The number of deaths in a population in a given period of time for a specific case/all cases.
• Incidence 


  The number (or rate) of new cases of a disease/condition in a population during a given period.
• Prevalence 


  The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time.
• YLD (Years Lost due to Disability 


  The number of healthy years lost due to disease, illness or injury.
• YLL (Years of Life Lost)

  Years of life lost due to premature death.
• Disability adjusted life year (DALY)


  A measure of burden of disease, one DALY equals one year of healthy life lost due to premature death and time lived with illness, disease or injury.
• 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 disease and disability. Is measured in a unit called the DALY.
• Self-assessed health status 


  A measure based on a person's own opinion about how they feel about their health and wellbeing, their state of mind and their life in general. It is commonly sourced from population surveys.
• Core activity limitation 


  When an individual has difficulty, or requires assistance, with any of the three core activities.

  • self-care (bathing, dressing, eating, going toilet)​
  • mobility (moving around the home and out of a chair)​
  • communication in own language (understanding/being understood by strangers, friends or family including use of sign language)