Refers to ill-health in an individual, or levels of ill-health in a population.
What is Morbidity
100
Refers to death in a population.
What is Mortality
100
Changes in the body and it's systems. These can be changes in size (i.e. growth), complexity (e.g. the increase in complexity of the nervous system) and motor skills (e.g. learning to walk).
What is Physical Development
100
The development of processes in the brain such as thought, knowledge and memory.
What is Intellectual Development
100
The increasing complexity of behaviour patterns used in relationships with other people.
What is Social Development
200
A measure of burden of disease.
What is Disability Adjusted Life Years
(DALY)
200
State of wellbeing in which the individual realises his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.
What is Mental Health
200
Relates to the efficient functioning of the body and it's systems, and includes the physical capacity to perform tasks and physical fitness.
What is Physical Health
200
Being able to interact with others and participate in the community in both an independent and cooperative way.
What is Social Health
200
The development of the full range of emotions and the optimal way of dealings with and expressing them.
What is Emotional Development
300
A state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
What is Health
300
Refers to the number (or rate) of new cases of a disease/condition in a population during a given period.
What is Incidence
300
An individual's or a population's overall health, taking into account various aspects such as life expectancy, amount of disability, and levels of disease risk factors.
What is Health Status
300
The series of orderly predictable changes that occur from conception until death. development can be physical, intellectual, social or emotional.
What is Individual Human Development
300
Factors relating to the body that affect health (e.g. genetics, hormones, body weight).
What is Biological determinants
400
Standard statistics that are used to measure and compare health status, e.g. life expectancy, mortality rates, morbidity rates
What is Health Indicators
500
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.