Excerpt from a report from Statistics Canada

The functional health of Canadian adults has declined over the past decade, largely due to deteriorating emotional health and the increasing prevalence of pain. Functional health, measured using the Health Utilities Index Mark 3, is an important measure of health-related quality of life (included in Canada’s Quality of Life Framework) that summarizes an individual’s level of difficulty in eight attributes: vision, hearing, speech, cognition, dexterity, mobility, emotional health and pain. The attributes can then be combined into a multi-attribute score summarizing the individual’s overall functional health status. A score of 0.89 to 1.00 indicates very good to perfect functional health, while scores below 0.89 indicate moderate to poor functional health.

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