1) What is the HALE? Which key components comprise a country’s overall measureme

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1) What is the HALE? Which key components comprise a country’s overall measurement of quality of life?

2) What is a DALY? Which are the three categories that the GBD project divides DALYS into?

3) Which are the quality standards used to evaluate health information from the internet?

4) Explain each of the three types of individual decision making, also include the process/roles for each of them along with the advantages/disadvantages with each process.

5) What is the infant mortality rate? What is life expectancy?

Explanation / Answer

1. HALE is Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy which measures health of a population.

Key components of country's overall quality of life:

2. DALY is  disability-adjusted life year. It measures the overall disease burden. It is the he sum of years of life lost and years lived with disability.

Global burden of disease (GBD) project divides DALYs into three catagories:

i) Communicable diseases

ii) Non-communicable diseases

iii)Injuries

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4. Three types of individual decision making:

i) Rational decision making- In this type of decision making, all the choices are compared logically and after thinking and calculating a lot, a decision has been made. The pros are future consequences are already being considered for the decision to be taken and it is a well planned process.

ii) Intuitive decision making-this process is completely based on human emotions and intuitions. The cons are that sometimes emotions may clog mind to take right decision

iii) Random decision making-people use very random approaches to take decision here which are purely based on luck. These impulsive decisions many time are not correct are thinking part doesnt happen for it.

5. Infant mortality rate is the measure of no. of deaths happened in children aged less than 1 year for a particular region in an year.

Life expectancy is the measure of no. of years a person may expect to live

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