Measuring Health

This presentation covers the concept of measuring health, including physical, mental, and social health related questions, and information about population health screening. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of health screening.

Measuring Health

Table of Content
• Introduction
• Physical Health Related Questions
• Mental Health Related Questions
• Social Health Related Questions
• Population Health Screening
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
The concept of measuring of health is basically consists of and including the
possible symptoms along with the functional limitation present within an
individual along with its quality of life which leads a discrepancy between
actual and desired functions and activities level of a particular individual. This
presentation covers physical, social and mental health related questions and
information about population health screening.

Physical Health Related Questions
• How much exercise do you need?
• Why is physical activity beneficial?
• How long do I need to work out for?

Mental Health Related Questions
• What do I do if it is an emergency?
• How can I tell if someone has a mental health problem?
• What causes depression?

Social Health Related Questions
• Is balancing social life beneficial for an individual?
• How can a person be engaged with other people in the community?

Population Health Screening
Health screening is defined as an effective way for detecting a particular
condition or disease early, even when no signs or symptoms of disease have
been seen. Detecting the health condition early means getting proper treatment
at right time and this administers patient with better control over health. There
are several benefits of health screening including early detection of diseases
which might outcomes into better management and treatment of disease, which
in turn declines the risk of complications while maximizing the chances of
good health outcomes.

Advantages
• Health screening helps in early detection of disease which in turn assist in
providing appropriate treatment.
• It can assist individual who have family history of diabetes or cardiovascular
disease with prevention process and administer them with timely treatments.
• It provides an individual with best defence against the diseases.

Disadvantages
• Health screening test can have harmful impact on the body.
• It cannot prevent a disease, but it can only detect the disease.
• It may sometimes give false positive outcomes that develop unneeded
worrying.
• Over diagnosis outcomes in unnecessary treatment.

Conclusion
As per the above discussion, it can be concluded that for measuring the
health of an individual, interpretation of demographic and
epidemiological data is useful. There are three main indicators of health
and diseases including physical health, mental health and social health.
All these indicators impact on the health of an individual.

References
• Yang, C.C., 2017. Measuring health indicators and allocating health resources:
a DEA-based approach. Health care management science, 20(3), pp.365-378.
• Lagravinese, R., Liberati, P. and Resce, G., 2020. Measuring Health Inequality
in US: A Composite Index Approach. Social Indicators Research, 147(3),
pp.921-946.
• Fitzpatrick, R., 2018. Measuring health outcomes. Sociology as Applied to
Health and Medicine, p.359.

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