Health Status Indicators
Refers to death. Primarily measured in a rate per 100,000 people per year or YLL (Years of Life Lost).
What is mortality?
Relates to the body's functioning and systems, including the physical capacity to perform daily activities or tasks.
What is physical health?
Refers to the unfair and avoidable differences in health status or the distribution of health resources among different population groups.
What are health inequalities?
Judgements about what is essential to or beneficial for a community.
What are community values?
Costs associated with preventing a disease or condition and providing health services to people suffering from it.
What are direct costs?
The number of new cases of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time.
What is incidence?
The ability to express feelings and manage emotional actions and reactions positively, including displaying resilience.
What is emotional health?
Extreme feelings of hopelessness, sadness, isolation, worry, withdrawal, and worthlessness that last for a prolonged period and interfere with normal activities.
What is depression?
Money provided, often by an organisation, government, or crowd sourcing, for a particular purpose.
What is funding?
The ability to access, understand, and use health information to make informed decisions and take appropriate actions to improve one's health.
What is health literacy?
An individual’s perception of their health and wellbeing based on one of five options: excellent, very good, good, fair and poor.
What is self-assessed health status?
Social health.
What is the ability to form meaningful and satisfying relationships with others and the ability to manage or adapt appropriately to different social situations?
An umbrella term referring to a range of mortality and morbidity causes, including traffic accidents, suicide, poisoning, falls, violence, and drowning.
What is injury?
A factor affecting health promotion programs focused on addressing systemic inequalities and injustices that can impact youth health.
What is social justice?
A protective or risk factor related to where you live that can impact your access to resources and services.
What is geographical location and remoteness?
A combination of mortality and morbidity data to compare conditions that contribute differently to death and illness.
What is burden of disease?
What is mental health?
What is vaping?
Two barriers stopping young people suffering from health conditions from getting help.
What are stigma, poor health literacy, trust issues, cultural needs, lack of money, etc.?
Non-monetary, subjective, and difficult-to-quantify costs associated with a disease or condition.
What are intangible costs?
One year of healthy life lost due to premature death and time lived with illness, disease or injury.
What is DALY?
Spiritual health.
What are ideas, beliefs, values, and ethics that arise in human beings' minds and consciences, including the concepts of hope, peace, a guiding sense of meaning or value, and reflection on one’s place in the world.
Two contributing factors to a young person's decision to drink alcohol.
What is Australia's drinking culture, friends and family, poor education, etc.?
Two enablers helping young people with health conditions get help.
What are friends and family, cultural support, money, education, etc.?
An indirect cost associated with a person suffering from depression.
What is lost income due to reduced work, increased government payments, lost tax revenue, etc.?