Disambiguation: health outcomes

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Health change Health outcomes are defined as follows in the WHO Health promotion glossary: A change in the health status of an individual, group or population which is attributable to a planned program or series of programs, regardless of whether such a program was intended to change health status....

Health Outcomes

For any sample population, health outcomes are measured by tracking morbidity and mortality. Morbidity represents disease or ill health within a given population, and mortality measures deaths and causes of death within that population. Morbidity and mortality measures give an overarching view of a population’s...