Health Sciences 3050A/B Lecture 5: health and illness; physical health
7 Feb 2017
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Health adjusted life expectancy: an indicator of the average number of years that an individual is expected to live in a healthy state. It is a summary measure that combines both quantity of life and quality of life: aka hale. Prevalence-based method: uses normal life table, know observed mortality and hrqol measure for the various diseases, how often is it happening. Incidence- based models: multi-state life table, bw states, diff times in life where you hit natural transition and risk factors increase or decreases, translation states are the potential to loss health, rate at which something is happening. Similarities: same measures and outcome, variable depending on time of life, using same measures wherever they can, based on population data, historical data. Dm/hyp: 2 million (6. 3% of pop) type 1, increased risk of developing other life threatening diseases (heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, poor health, premature mortality. The following steps were used to calculate health-adjusted life expectancy by disease status:
