In your home country or city what would be the most appropri

In your home country or city, what would be the most appropritate set of indicators to assess the impact of chronic diseases on the population? Why?

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Chronic disease measurements in epidemiology includes Measurement of mortality Measurement of morbidity Measurement of disability Measurement of natality Measurement of environmental and other factors for causing the disease Measurement of characters of diseases Commenly used measures to chronic disease includes: Crude death rate, the number of death per 1000 midyear population in one year, if it is high the chronicity of the disease Specific death rates related to disease specific, age specific, sex specific. If limit exceeded than normal leads to chronic disease Case fatality rate, killing power of disease best measurement of chronic disease. Number of new cases occuring is the incidence, if it is high, the disease is chronic Prevalence also used for chronicity of disease. It is the total number of people with disease at a particular time. Person distribution who developed disease by age, sex, occupation, martial status, habits and social class etc. They are studied with epidemiological studies like case control study, cohort study etc.