Match the term with the definition or description.
A. Measures the number of total cases of a disease (existing and new) over a period of time
B. Calculated by subtracting the total number of sick and disabled days and years from the average life expectancy
C. Measures the number of people in a population who have a disease at one point in time per 100,000 people
D. Measures of quality include medicalization of social problems, community health indicators, years of healthy life, also called quality-adjusted life years, and disability-adjusted life years
E. Often used in cost-effectiveness calculations to determine whether a health care treatment provides a sufficient improvement in health for the amount of money that it costs
F. Calculates the incidence of death per year per 1,000 or 100,000 people
A. prevalence
B. years of healthy life
C. morbidity rate
D. living
E. quality-adjusted life years
F. mortality rate
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