Health Status
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‘‘cases averted,’’ ‘‘life years saved’’ and ‘‘DALYs.’’
determined by diseases, treatments, injuries, and both personal and environmental risk factors.
Health Promotion Health Status Synonyms Health Education Definition Health Promotion focuses on education and harm reduction. For people who are homeless with mental illness or substance abuse problems, this includes reduction of substance use, risky sexual behavior, or needle injection, towards the goals of reducing substance use and preventing HIV and/or other STDs.
Definition The state of physical and mental health which often incorporates the patient’s perspective of these attributes.
Health Summary Measures Definition Population-based summary measures of health that combine information on mortality and nonfatal health outcomes to represent population health in a single number.
Health Services Research Definition Health Services Research is a multidisciplinary field of research that focuses on the study of the provision of individuals and populations with products and services related to health care. Goals are the evaluation of the effectiveness of health care measures under realistic conditions and the impact of influencing factors (e.g., insurance plans, costs, organization, structures, health technology, and quality of care). Health services research complements traditional clinical research.
Health State Definition Health State refers to objective levels of functioning along a series of health attributes (e.g., mobility, thinking, pain, affect). The specific attributes deemed to be important vary depending on the conceptual framework used, but generally cover mental, physical, and social functioning. A health state is
Health System Perspective Definition When the costs of the health system (provider) are included in an economic evaluation, but not those of patients, care-takers or other sectors of society.
Health Utilities Index Mark 3 Definition A comprehensive, compact health status classification and health state preference system.
Health Utility Definition A Health Utility is a measure of health status similar to a QOL measure. Two distinguishing features of a HU are that (1) It is based on society’s preference of the value of a given
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