Lesson 1176 of 1524
The Health of the Population
Healthy People 2030 identifies high-priority health issues and challenges, which are referred to as leading health indicators (LHIs).
Practice this chapterHealthy People 2030 identifies high-priority health issues and challenges, which are referred to as leading health indicators (LHIs). A population health measure or metric is an indicator that reflects the quality of a group’s overall health and well-being.
Life expectancy at birth, morbidity, mortality, and premature death are examples of population health outcome measures. Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and wholeness.
health — a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. health outcome — a change in the health status of an individual, group, or population that is attributable to a planned intervention or series of interventions, regardless of whether such an…. well-being — the subjective perception that life is going well; is important from a public health perspective, as it is an outcome. health indicators — health-related measures of data that are used to quantify and track an individual’s health status.
Worked example
What does “health” mean in The Health of the Population?
- 1Use the wording this chapter gives for health.
- 2The book says: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
- 3Do not use the meaning of health outcome. That term means a change in the health status of an individual, group, or population that is attributable to a planned intervention or series of interventions, regardless of whether such an….
Result: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Why. That is the meaning this chapter gives for health.
Do not swap health and health outcome. health means a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. health outcome means a change in the health status of an individual, group, or population that is attributable to a planned intervention or series of interventions, regardless of whether such an….
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