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The health status of Australian Youth

Health status Health status refers to the level of health of an individual, group or population Severe Neutral Optimal health As already mentioned, health is a dynamic state — it is continually changing. Usually these changes in health status are fairly minor; for example, developing a cold may slightly affect physical, social and mental health for a short period of time.

Health status How healthy are you? Can you think of factors that affect your health? Are you in control of them? For two of the factors listed in the previous question, outline in detail an example of how it has impacted on your health.

Why do we measure the health status of the population? It allows judgments to be made about the health of individuals, groups or populations. With this information, government and non-government organisations can take action to improve health in specific areas. It allows trends to be identified in health status over time. Australia is one of the healthiest countries in the world and Australia’s youth (those aged 12–18) are among the healthiest individuals in the country.

How do we measure health status? There are a number of ways of measuring health status and these measures are collectively known as health indicators. Can you name any health indicators? * Mind mapping task

Health indicators Life expectancy Mortality Years of life lost (YLL) Morbidity Incidence & Prevalence Burden of Disease

Life Expectancy Life expectancy is one of the most common methods used to measure health status. It gives an indication of how long a person can expect to live if the current death rates stay the same. Male Female 1901-10 2009-11 2009- 11 Birth 55.2 79.7 58.8 84.2 What factors have increased our life expectancy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

Can you explain the trend occurring?

Can you explain the trend occurring?

Your task www.worldlifeexpectancy.com Country Male Life Expectancy Research the current Life Expectancy of people living in 8 different countries. https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/life-expectancy-europe Write a short paragraph outlining some factors which may be contributing to these changes in life expectancy. www.worldlifeexpectancy.com Country Male Life Expectancy Female Life Expectancy 2 x Factors influencing the countries Life Expectancy

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Mortality The deaths in a population Mortality rate is therefore an indication of how many deaths occurred in a population in a given period of time for a specific cause/all causes. Refer to figure 2.2 and figure 2..5 ~ Can you identify factors that are contributing to these trends?

Mortality diagram Australia vs a developing country

Years of life lost (YLL) Years of life lost (YLL) due to premature death is another way of measuring and comparing mortality. If a person dies from a given condition 30 years before the predicted life expectancy for their age, than they have contributed 30 YLLs to that particular cause of death. Complete questions 4-8 on page 45 of the textbook

Morbidity The rate at which a particular disease or illness occurs within a population. There are two ways of considering morbidity The number of people reporting a condition. Often represented as a percentage of a population, or the incidence and prevalence rates. Years lost due to disability (YLD’s)

Incidence & Prevalence - Two measures used to present morbidity data Incidence ~ The number or rate of new cases of a particular condition during a specific time. - Incidence data is useful for identifying which conditions are increasing in diagnosis and which ones are decreasing. Prevalence ~ The number of cases of a condition at a given time

Burden of Disease Is a measure that combines mortality data with morbidity data, 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. Burden of disease is measured in a unit called a DALY (Disability Adjusted Life Year). DALY = YLL + YLD

Burden of Disease. DALYs Disability adjusted life years (DALYs) are a measure of the years of healthy life lost due to premature death, illness or injury. One DALY is a lost year of ‘healthy’ life. DALY= YLL + YLD Years of life lost due premature mortality. Years of healthy life lost due to disability

Reading data The following graph shows the proportion of youth rating their family’s ability to get along as excellent, very good, fair or poor. This graph is referring to family cohesion. Family cohesion is an example of Social environment determinant.

The following graph shows the mortality rate for those aged 5-19 between 1970 and 2008:

Learning task For each health indicator you’re required to find a table/graph which outlines current Australian data (past 10 years). For each graph you’re required to outline a trend.