Difference between revisions of "Health"
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Revision as of 15:51, 21 February 2021
Return to Societal Challenges
Life Expectancy
- Pandemic cut U.S. life expectancy by a year during the first half of 2020 (2-18-21)
- Life Expectancy In The U.S. Sees Largest Decline In Decades After Covid-19 (1/24/21)
- Large decline in cancer mortality (1/13/21)
Health Measure
- Quality-adjusted life year - QALY is a measure of the value of health outcomes. Scores range from 1 (perfect health) to 0 (dead). 1 QALY (1 year of life × 1 Utility value)
Health Complexity
Cancer
- Breast cancer death rates stop declining in younger women, study finds (2-15-21)
- "CT Scan overdose and overuse gives 50,000 American cancer every year" Korley, Pham, Kirsh, 2009
Health is the state and management of physical, mental, functional and genomic health including life expectancy. Health are realities that can impact people, communities (industries, organizations, locations or groups) and other realities.
Health is not about being able to compete in the Olympics, it is being healthy enough to achieve basic needs (food, clothing, housing) and and desired level of Purpose and Meaning (spending time with grandchildren), Love and Connection and Competence and Control.
Health is a component of personal well-being.
