Measurements of Health Status

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Across
  1. 5. A general movement or pattern
  2. 6. An indication of how long a person can expect to live if the current death rates stay the same
  3. 9. Indication of how many deaths occurred in a population in a given period of time for a specific cause/all causes
  4. 10. Refers to ill-health in an individual or the level of ill-health in a population or group. It includes disease, injury and disability.
  5. 11. An individual’s or population’s overall level of health, taking into account various aspects such as life expectancy, amount of disability and levels of disease risk factors.
Down
  1. 1. Rate of ill-health in a population at in a given period of time
  2. 2. The collective term given to the variety of ways of measuring health status eg life expectancy, morbidity, mortality, burden of disease.
  3. 3. The numbers of new cases of a condition in a given period of time (usually 12 months)
  4. 4. Deaths in a population
  5. 7. Years of life lost due to premature death (abbreviation)
  6. 8. The total number of cases of a condition at a given time.