5 Measures of Health
- Created by: Beth Dunn-Wilson
- Created on: 07-01-13 19:51
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- Measures of health
- Under 5 mortality rate
- Life expectancy
- :) more years of vitality?
- :( more years of poverty?
- :) more years of vitality?
- Height: affected by nutrition.
- Stunted growth > poor diet > poverty-related illness
- John Strauss and Duncan Thomas: taller men earn more money in Brazil. A 1% increase in height > 7% increase in income in a middle income country.
- BMI
- Reflects short-term and long-term health and nutrition.
- UN definition of health: 'a state of complete mental, physical and social well-being and not merely an absence of disease and infirmity.'
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