1. Health Related Quality of Life
Lexi Petracci, Nick Kilcourse, Rachel Joe

2. What does this mean? Overview of HRQOL.
Multi Dimensional Concept: physical, mental, emotional, social
Maximize these qualities
All about you
Broader than just “population health”
Mainly measures positive aspects of one’s life
Public Health priority

3. Why is this topic a problem?
Obesity rates are very high: only 1 in 3 children are physically active daily
45% children from poverty= overweight
How you feel inside
Parents stem to children
Physical stems down to other aspects of well-being

4. Explain the Goal
“Improve health-related quality of life and well-being for all individuals.”
Four Goals:
The first overarching goal was to increase quality of life
Promoting the quality of life
Healthy development
Health behavior across all stages

5. Nation’s Objective
“Increase the proportion of adults who self-report good or better physical health”
Report 2010: 78.8% reported better health from 2000
Goals: Increase reported better health in 2020 to 79.8%
Location: Metropolitan ( 79.6%) vs. Non-metropolitan (74.8%)
Sex: Male (82.5%) vs. Female (75.4%)
Disability: Activity Limitations (38.2%) vs. No activity limitations (87.3%)
Physical, Mental, Social well-being are all measured

6. Are we meeting objectives?
“Healthy People is exploring measurement of these concepts at this time.”- Healthy People 2020
Metropolitan area is reaching objective
Males reaching objective
Persons with disabilities and no activity limitations are reaching objective
Data from questionnaire on Healthy People 2020 from CDC/NCHS

7. How Can Our Nation Further Address the Problem?
In 2010, it was reported that 78.8% adults had increased their physical health.
Target: 79.8%
To reach further than the target:
Physical well being
Mental well being
Social well being
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8. Sources:
quality-of-life-well-being/objectives