HLTH101 Lecture Notes - World Health Organization, Mortality Rate, Disability-Adjusted Life Year
31 Jul 2013
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Bring order to chaos: add pattern, structure, predict, manipulate, manage, skills required at the frontiers of knowledge. Negative definition: absence of disease, illness. Positive definition: world health organization (w. h. o) definition of health, complete well-being (physical, mental, social) Recognizes that there"s more wrong with us than just what doctors diagnosed. Subjective: when you feel ill (nobody else can feel your illness) Verifiable: through professional consensus, diagnostic criteria (different physicians should produce the same conclusion, first principles of health research and practice. Certain things that everyone has to agree on: health status can change over time, we can learn causes of changes in health, we can use knowledge to change health status (improve, measuring health and disease, mortality. Everything that happens to your health that isn"t death. Effects of problem: on the individual, on the population, on lifespan. Actual lifespan vs. life expectancy (assume it is the average) Le = average number of years remaining for particular age.
