Burden Of disease

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Is this a good definition its in my own words, do i have to memorise the definitions from the book?

Burden of disease:  Is measured in disability adjusted life years(DALYs, burden of disease is used to asses and compare the condition that cause ill health and death through the help of mortality and morbidity data, did that last part make sense?

[mad_maxine]

Is this a good definition its in my own words, do i have to memorise the definitions from the book?

Burden of disease:  Is measured in disability adjusted life years(DALYs, burden of disease is used to asses and compare the condition that cause ill health and death through the help of mortality and morbidity data, did that last part make sense?

I think it's pretty good. I think doing it in your own words helps to memorize it better, and assessors do not expect you to memorise complex textbook definitions off by heart.  I think I learn better rote learning tho, so I'm just gonna memorise the textbook definitions :-)

[yearningforsimplicity]

It's best to memorise the definitions according to VCAA standards   The problem with memorising textbook definitions is that the definitions vary from textbook to textbook and there's no 100% guarantee that those definitions will get you the marks Also, some definitions are "official" (e.g. theyre from the WHO or AIHW), so you need to memorise them accordingly In the old study design, we had a nice mini glossary at the end with all the definitions for the key terms and we stuck to that Unfortunately, your new study design for 2014 doesn't have the glossary at the back with the key terms But I've mentioned below all the health status indicator definitions which the majority of students use (and which VCAA tend to approve of as they'd mentioned them in the previous study design)

Health: ‘A complete state of physical, social and mental wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.’
Physical Health Relates to the efficient functioning of the body and its systems, and includes the physical capacity to perform tasks and physical fitness.
Social HealthBeing able to interact with others and participate in the community in both an independent and cooperative way.
Mental Health‘State of well-being in which the individual realises his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.’ (WHO, 2009)
Health Status: ‘An individual’s or a population’s overall level of health, taking into account various aspects such as life expectancy, amount of disability and levels of disease risk factors.’ (AIHW, 2008)
Mortality: Refers to the number of deaths caused by a particular disease, illness or environmental factor.
Morbidity: ‘Refers to ill health in an individual and the levels of ill health in a population or group.’
Incidence: The number or proportion of new cases of a particular disease in a population over a period of time.
Prevalence: ‘The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time.’
Life Expectancy: ‘An indication of how long a person can expect live, it is the number of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age if death rates do not change.’
Under 5 Mortality Rate: ‘The number of deaths of children under five years of age per 1000 live births.’
Health Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) A measure of burden of disease based on life expectancy at birth, but including an adjustment for time spent in poor health. It is the number of years in full health that a person can expect to live, based on current rates of ill health and mortality.
Burden of Disease: A measure of the impact of diseases and injuries, specifically it measures the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free of disease and disability. Burden of disease is measured in a unit called the DALY.
Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY): A measure of the burden of disease, where one DALY equals one year of healthy life lost due to premature death or time lived with illness, disease or injury.
Years of Life Lost (YLL): The fatal component of the Burden of Disease - indicating Premature Death
Years of Life lost due to Disability (YLD): The non-fatal component of the Burden of Disease - referring to healthy life lost to disability or illness

Memorise the above definitions and you'll never run the risk of losing marks from some pesky/picky assessor

[Scrono13]

Maybe just learn it from the study design. That way, when given a define question, you won't lose any marks that you shouldn't. Plus, being able to define from the study design allows you to have a deeper understanding of what the term actually means.

[mad_maxine]

It's best to memorise the definitions according to VCAA standards   The problem with memorising textbook definitions is that the definitions vary from textbook to textbook and there's no 100% guarantee that those definitions will get you the marks Also, some definitions are "official" (e.g. theyre from the WHO or AIHW), so you need to memorise them accordingly In the old study design, we had a nice mini glossary at the end with all the definitions for the key terms and we stuck to that Unfortunately, your new study design for 2014 doesn't have the glossary at the back with the key terms But I've mentioned below all the health status indicator definitions which the majority of students use (and which VCAA tend to approve of as they'd mentioned them in the previous study design)

Health: ‘A complete state of physical, social and mental wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.’
Physical Health Relates to the efficient functioning of the body and its systems, and includes the physical capacity to perform tasks and physical fitness.
Social HealthBeing able to interact with others and participate in the community in both an independent and cooperative way.
Mental Health‘State of well-being in which the individual realises his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.’ (WHO, 2009)
Health Status: ‘An individual’s or a population’s overall health, taking into account various aspects such as life expectancy, amount of disability and levels of disease risk factors.’ (AIHW, 2008)
Mortality: Refers to the death of an individual and the levels of death that arise from a particular condition or in a population or group
Morbidity: ‘Refers to ill health in an individual and the levels of ill health in a population or group.’
Incidence: The number or proportion of new cases of a particular disease in a population over a period of time.
Prevalence: ‘The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time.’
Life Expectancy: ‘An indication of how long a person can expect live, it is the number of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age if death rates do not change.’
Under 5 Mortality Rate: ‘The number of deaths of children under five years of age per 1000 live births.’
Health Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) A measure of burden of disease based on life expectancy at birth, but including an adjustment for time spent in poor health. It is the number of years in full health that a person can expect to live, based on current rates of ill health and mortality.
Burden of Disease: A measure of the impact of diseases and injuries, specifically it measures the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free of disease and disability. Burden of disease is measured in a unit called the DALY.
Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY): A measure of the burden of disease, where one DALY equals one year of healthy life lost due to premature death or time lived with illness, disease or injury.
Years of Life Lost (YLL): The fatal component of the Burden of Disease - indicating Premature Death
Years of Life lost due to Disability (YLD): The non-fatal component of the Burden of Disease - referring to healthy life lost to disability or illness

Memorise the above definitions and you'll never run the risk of losing marks from some pesky/picky assessor

Although in the new study design there is no glossary. I'd say learn it from the textbook, because they do give the official definitions, and ones from vcaa too

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Maybe just learn it from the study design. That way, when given a define question, you won't lose any marks that you shouldn't. Plus, being able to define from the study design allows you to have a deeper understanding of what the term actually means.

how do i learn from the SS?

[methods 1 2 resources]

It's best to memorise the definitions according to VCAA standards   The problem with memorising textbook definitions is that the definitions vary from textbook to textbook and there's no 100% guarantee that those definitions will get you the marks Also, some definitions are "official" (e.g. theyre from the WHO or AIHW), so you need to memorise them accordingly In the old study design, we had a nice mini glossary at the end with all the definitions for the key terms and we stuck to that Unfortunately, your new study design for 2014 doesn't have the glossary at the back with the key terms But I've mentioned below all the health status indicator definitions which the majority of students use (and which VCAA tend to approve of as they'd mentioned them in the previous study design)

Health: ‘A complete state of physical, social and mental wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.’
Physical Health Relates to the efficient functioning of the body and its systems, and includes the physical capacity to perform tasks and physical fitness.
Social HealthBeing able to interact with others and participate in the community in both an independent and cooperative way.
Mental Health‘State of well-being in which the individual realises his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.’ (WHO, 2009)
Health Status: ‘An individual’s or a population’s overall health, taking into account various aspects such as life expectancy, amount of disability and levels of disease risk factors.’ (AIHW, 2008)
Mortality: Refers to the death of an individual and the levels of death that arise from a particular condition or in a population or group
Morbidity: ‘Refers to ill health in an individual and the levels of ill health in a population or group.’
Incidence: The number or proportion of new cases of a particular disease in a population over a period of time.
Prevalence: ‘The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time.’
Life Expectancy: ‘An indication of how long a person can expect live, it is the number of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age if death rates do not change.’
Under 5 Mortality Rate: ‘The number of deaths of children under five years of age per 1000 live births.’
Health Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) A measure of burden of disease based on life expectancy at birth, but including an adjustment for time spent in poor health. It is the number of years in full health that a person can expect to live, based on current rates of ill health and mortality.
Burden of Disease: A measure of the impact of diseases and injuries, specifically it measures the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free of disease and disability. Burden of disease is measured in a unit called the DALY.
Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY): A measure of the burden of disease, where one DALY equals one year of healthy life lost due to premature death or time lived with illness, disease or injury.
Years of Life Lost (YLL): The fatal component of the Burden of Disease - indicating Premature Death
Years of Life lost due to Disability (YLD): The non-fatal component of the Burden of Disease - referring to healthy life lost to disability or illness

Memorise the above definitions and you'll never run the risk of losing marks from some pesky/picky assessor

so i shouldn't put it me in my own words?  what about the definition i gave for burden of disease?

[mad_maxine]

so i shouldn't put it me in my own words?  what about the definition i gave for burden of disease?

IMO it's ok to put it into your own words, as long as it's accurate and you have all the relevant info in your answer. You can't learn definitions from the current study design however, as it doesn't have a glossary. It's safest to learn from the textbook, because it has the accurate definitions. Again, vcaa doesn't expect you to learn definitions off by heart word for word, so as long as you have all the vital info, you defs can put it into your own words for a lot of definitions.

[yearningforsimplicity]

IMO it's ok to put it into your own words, as long as it's accurate and you have all the relevant info in your answer. You can't learn definitions from the current study design however, as it doesn't have a glossary. It's safest to learn from the textbook, because it has the accurate definitions. Again, vcaa doesn't expect you to learn definitions off by heart word for word, so as long as you have all the vital info, you defs can put it into your own words for a lot of definitions.

I get what you mean, but its just that following the definitions that vcaa provides is the safest way of learning definitions - their definitions are complete and if you stick to them there's no way the vcaa assessor can take marks off you putting definitions ito your own words is not bad, but you just run the risk of missing some aspect of the definition. Also, the definitions provided by vcaa arent too extensive to begin with so thats why i think its best to stick to those also, another main thing is that a lot of the definitions in HHD are 'official' definitions created and endorsed by organisations like the WHO, UN, VicHealth and AIHW which means that ose definitions cant really be paraphrased as they're Definitions that kind of need to be word to word e.g. In unit 4, for definitions of Human Development and Sustainability, the study design says "according to the UN" meaning that you MUST provide definitions that are the same definitions put forth by the Un I hope this makes sense!

[mad_maxine]

I get what you mean, but its just that following the definitions that vcaa provides is the safest way of learning definitions - their definitions are complete and if you stick to them there's no way the vcaa assessor can take marks off you putting definitions ito your own words is not bad, but you just run the risk of missing some aspect of the definition. Also, the definitions provided by vcaa arent too extensive to begin with so thats why i think its best to stick to those also, another main thing is that a lot of the definitions in HHD are 'official' definitions created and endorsed by organisations like the WHO, UN, VicHealth and AIHW which means that ose definitions cant really be paraphrased as they're Definitions that kind of need to be word to word e.g. In unit 4, for definitions of Human Development and Sustainability, the study design says "according to the UN" meaning that you MUST provide definitions that are the same definitions put forth by the Un I hope this makes sense!

Hahahaha I see what you mean. I think I'm just too used to making up my own definitions for legal, seeing as they have no official definitions. Do you think vcaa will include a glossary in the new study design? Was just thinking that as they weren't included some of them may no longer be relevant or up to date, that's why I suggested the textbook. 

[yearningforsimplicity]

Hahahaha I see what you mean. I think I'm just too used to making up my own definitions for legal, seeing as they have no official definitions. Do you think vcaa will include a glossary in the new study design? Was just thinking that as they weren't included some of them may no longer be relevant or up to date, that's why I suggested the textbook. 

Hahaha I see! And unfortunately they havent included a glossarywith the new study design but I think you can still download the old 2010 study design and just use its glossary the definitions would still be valid

[mad_maxine]

Hahaha I see! And unfortunately they havent included a glossarywith the new study design but I think you can still download the old 2010 study design and just use its glossary the definitions would still be valid

Good, good  thank you so much!!