HSC 4201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Diarrhea, Cardiovascular Disease, Disability-Adjusted Life Year
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Difficult to measure the level of wellness or ill health. Mortality statistics continue to be the single most reliable indicator of a population"s health status. Mortality statistics do not completely describe the health status of a population they can be used to calculate other useful measurements life expectancy and years of potential life lost. Measurements of ill health disability-adjusted life years and health-adjusted life expectancy. Morbidity and mortality rates vary greatly depending on age, sex, race, and ethnicity. Heart disease is leading cause of death in older adults. Cancer is leading cause of death in the 46 to 65 year old age group. Unintentional deaths are greater in the 11-44 years. Study in the mortality statistics for the 20th century reveals a shift in the leading causes of death: when country began communicable diseases were the leading causes of death, now non-communicable diseases.
