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?
The first choice for support on personal matters for young people.
What is peer group?
Ranking a person's standing in society based on their income, education, and residential location (where they live).
What is SES?
Second skin.
What is Indigenous land or Country.
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?
The main providers for health resources for young people.
What is family?
The main difference(s) between male and female perspectives on health and wellbeing.
What are males tend to prioritise physical health while females have a more holistic view, considering all dimensions of health and wellbeing?
The main difference(s) between Indigenous and non-Indigenous understandings of health and wellbeing.
What is Indigenous Australians have a holistic view and priorities cultural, community, and spiritual health.
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?
For example, indoor air pollution, kitchen facilities, overcrowding, water quality, safety, and geographical location.
What is housing?
The age range most concerned with social health, placing high importance on relationships and peer acceptance.
What is youth (12—17)?
The removal of children of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent from their families by the Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions.
What is the Stolen Generation?
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?
Ensuring young people are equipped with the knowledge and skills to be health literate.
What is access to health information?
Western countries view health and wellbeing within the context of professional medical practice and intervention, while Eastern countries may believe that health and wellbeing may be a result of supernatural phenomena.
What are cultural perspectives?
A strategy by the Commonwealth and state and territory governments of Australia that aims to reduce disparity between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians on key health, education and economic opportunity targets.
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.
For example, electronic health records, telehealth consults, mobile health and wellness applications, and wearable devices such as fitness and sleep trackers.
What are digital technologies?
Buddhists practice meditation in pursuit of nirvana; Christians practice sexual activity that is approved by God within marriage with the sole focus on procreation.
What are religious perspectives and priorities?
The two main health priorities of Indigenous Australians.
What is connection to land and importance of culture.