“Recent developments in the measurement of population health status and disease burden include the increasing use of composite measures of health that combine the mortality and morbidity effects of diseases into a single indicator; the availability of results of the Global Burden of Disease studies making use of summary indicators; and developments in the measurement of disability and risk factors” (Merson et al., 2018, Chapter 1).
Discuss the various methods/indicators used to measure different diseases in a population.
• What is the rationale for obtaining health-related information within a population?
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