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GLPH 271 Module 4 questions withcomplete solutions
Global health questions - correct answer ✔✔
Advocate vs. Scientific communication - correct answer ✔✔must work together to bring about
meaningful change
Gap in global health - correct answer ✔✔the difference in health status between wealthy vs.
impoverished countries; lowest income → highest illness & premature mortality
due to SDHs
lowest life expectancy - correct answer ✔✔53
highest life expectancy - correct answer ✔✔85
Social gradient - correct answer ✔✔the observation that health is correlated with social class/status all
the way up and down the scale, that poor health is not simply a problem of poverty, but of overall
income inequality
poverty → stressors (mental burden, low support) & barriers (can't buy nutritious food, etc)
employment social classes (educational level & position)—lowest income workers tend to work the most
physically-demanding jobs/inflexible hours/dangerous environments, contributing to poor health
The Poverty Trap - correct answer ✔✔mechanism by which those in poverty remain in poverty (through
self-reinforcing mechanisms), unless an external force (ie. significant government resources) intervenes
, Closing the Gap Report - correct answer ✔✔health inequities arise because of inequities in social
determinants of health
WHO: Commission on the SHDs
Goals
1. Improve daily living conditions
→ work & living conditions; UNIVERSAL SOCIAL PROTECTION POLICY, universal healthcare
→ equal childhood development & circumstances under which people are born
2. Address inequalities in power, money, and resources
→ across public & private sectors
3. Measure & understand the problem & assess the impact of action
→ global health research
1. Improve Daily Living conditions - correct answer ✔✔equity from the start
→ early childhood development; growing up in safe & healthy environments
healthy places healthy people
fair employment & decent work
social protection across the lifecourse
universal healthcare
Housing - correct answer ✔✔key SDS; 3 main dimensions
- physical & structural elements
→ meet all basic survival needs (water, sanitation, electricity, plumbing, heat, ventilation, safe
infrastructure)
- social meanings attached to a house
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