Life and death in the world

===Lecture Details===
A Lecturer; Week 8 MED1022; MotM
===Lecture Content===
Measurements of health are mortality, morbidity (incidence and prevalence), and burden of disease. Births and fertility: 285,200 births, fertility highest from 30-34 age group. Avoidable deaths are those avoidable by public health and healthcare measures.
Burden of disease (summary measure of health status): Mortality: measure of PLL, morbidity: years of life with disability. DALY = YLL + YLD; DALY is equivalent to a year of healthy life lost. YLD are discounted according to severity of health condition. Cancers and VD have most YLL, mental disorders have YLD.
Determinants of individual and population health are general background factors (culture, resources, systems, environmental factors) (influenced by individual makeup such as genetics, ageing, life course influences) (which are fed into by SE characteristics like education, employment; knowledge and attitudes, also by health behaviours; psychological effects; safety factors, as well as by biomedical factors such as body weight, blood pressure. SE feeds into individual and pop health, general background into biomedical factors, health both from and into individual and population health
Poor health status in Indigenous, lower SES, prisoners, rural; better in immigrants. Large risk factors are continuation of unsafe sex, overweight individuals.
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