Measuring Health Status

Years of healthy life (minus the years of illness)

• Health status

• DALY

• Life expectancy

• HALE

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.

• Health status
• Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY)
• Burden Of Disease
• Life Expectancy

A statistical measure used to provide information about a particular aspect of the health status of a population. This is known as a/an:

• Health Status Indicator

• Dimension of health and wellbeing

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. Burden of disease is measured in a unit called the DALY. 

• Health status
• Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY)
• Burden Of Disease
• Life Expectancy

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

• Health status
• Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY)
• Burden Of Disease
• Life Expectancy

The total number of cases of a disease in a population is:

• Mortality

• Prevalence

• Incidence

• Rates of hospitalization

______ rate is a measure of death rates.

Ms Gayfer wanted to research new cases of Melanoma in Australia in the past 12 months. She would be collecting ____ data.

• Prevalence

• Incidence

• Impossible

• Random

An overall measure of a population’s health based on a person’s own perceptions of their health. This is known as: ______ ______ health status

Which statement of the trend is incorrect?

• Mortality rates have decreased between 1907 and 2019

• Males have always had a higher mortality rate than females

• In 1907 there were approximately 2250 males who died.

• In 1907 there were approximately 2250 male deaths for every 100 000 males in the population.