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N309 Global Health Test #1 questions with correct answers
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N309 Global Health Test #1 questions with correct answers
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N309 Global Health Test #1 questions with correctanswers
What is the difference between public health and clinical care? Correct
Answer-Public health:
1. Population focus
2. Greatest good for greatest number
3. Emphasis on preventing disease and promoting health of communities
4. Interventions target environment, behavioral lifestyles, and medical
care
Clinical care:
1. Individual focus
2. Needs of an individual are more important than the needs of a group
3. Emphasis on diagnosing and treating diseases
4. Interventions are medical
-____1____: A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
-____2____: The science and practice of protecting and improving the
health of a community, as by preventative medicine, health education,
control of communicable diseases, application of sanitary measures and
monitoring of environmental hazards.
-____3____: Health problems, issues, and concerns that transcend
national boundaries and may best be addressed by cooperative action
Correct Answer-1. Health (WHO, 1948)
2. Public health
,3. Global health.
What are different ways that people view health? Correct Answer-1.
Clinical- the absence of disease, illness, or symptoms
2. Functional- the ability to perform as expected in social/work roles
3. Adaptive- ability to adapt to environment and stressors, maintaining
stability
4. Eudaimonistic- ideal state of human nature. Exuberant well-being.
Transcendence to higher levels of humanness. Ability to achieve highest
potentials.
Why should we study global health? Correct Answer-1. Understand the
progress made and remaining in global health problems
2. Many health problems require global solutions and internal
cooperation
3. Diseases cross borders
4. Ethical responsibility to address health disparities
--Health Disparities: Health disparities refer to differences in the health
status of different groups of people. Some groups of people have higher
rates of certain diseases, and more deaths and suffering from them,
compared to others
5. Health is basis of economic and social development
6. Health promotes global security and freedom
7. Learn how to improve US health
--US spends more but has poorer health
, How many Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are there and by
what year should they be met? What are some of the types of problems
covered in the MDGs? Correct Answer-8 MDGs (w/15 core targets)
should be met by 2015:
1. Eradicate Extreme Hunger and poverty
2. Achieve Universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce Child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria & other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop Global partnership for development
-MDGs 1, 4, 5, & 6 deal directly with health
What made smallpox eradication successful? Correct Answer-1. No
animal or insect (vector) carried the virus
2. Smallpox is easily diagnosable
3. A vaccine was available that did not require refrigeration
4. The available technology included a bifurcated needle for easy
application; small amount of vaccine needed
5. Lifetime immunity
What are the 5 most populous countries in the world? Correct Answer-1.
China
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