TableĀ 1

Overall health status of those with different chronic health conditions

Long-term health conditionProportion with poor overall health status, measured by SF-6D (%)
Depression/mood affective disorders22
Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities49
Symptoms/signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified36
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases41
Mental and behavioural disorders46
Diseases of the respiratory system42
Other injury/poisoning40
Injury/accident25
Diseases of the blood and blood forming organs52
Back problems32
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissues28
Other diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue40
Arthritis and related disorders31
Heart disease33
Diseases of the eye and adnexa33
Other diseases of the circulatory system43
Diabetes12
Neoplasms (tumours/cancers)33
Diseases of the ear and mastoid process23
Diseases of the nervous system27
Diseases of the digestive system17
Diseases of the genitourinary system17
Asthma10
Hypertension5
Other endocrine/nutritional and metabolic disorders11
Other32
Deafness/hearing loss15
High cholesterol2
  • SF-6D, short form 6D.