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1. The concept of prevention is a key component of modern community health practice. Which of the following is an example of primary prevention?
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1. What percentage of the world health care is provided by nurses?
A) 30%–50%
B) 50%–60%
C) 60%–80%
D) More than 90%
2. What is one of the greatest challenges to global health that leads to health
disparities?
A) Access to adequate food
B) Health care
C) Shelter
D) Poverty
3. What is global health?
A) Differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases and
other adverse health conditions that exist among specific population groups
B) Health issues that transcend national boundaries and may best be addressed by
cooperative actions
C) Increasing economic, political, social, technological, and intellectual
interconnectedness of the world
D) International and global exchanges leading to growing recognition of common
threats, as well as opportunities, and a sense of growing solidarity and commitment
to collaboration to promote global social justice and equity
4. Globalization has both positive and negative effects on health. What is a
negative effect of globalization on health?
A) Diffusion of ideas
B) Expansion of trade
C) Global stewardship
D) Brain drain
5. Global data provide important guidance for nurses and other health workers in
identifying priorities for programs to address the most pressing health needs.
Which is a way that climate influences health outcomes?
A) Changes in air pollutants and allergens
B) Intensity of extreme cold waves during the winter months
C) Population displacement due to droughts
D) Alterations in population census numbers due to intensity of floods
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, 6. Which potential health effect of climate change will place the elderly and other
vulnerable groups at greatest risk?
A) Exposure to catastrophic weather events such as hurricanes and extreme heat
B) Increased flooding resulting in food and water shortages
C) Frequent and widespread vector borne diseases
D) Air pollution
7. In a historic meeting, representatives of 189 United Nations member states
endorsed a plan called the Millennium Declaration, which has been described as
“a new vision for humanity.” The Millennium Declaration is a set of eight goals,
with specific targets under each goal designed to reduce poverty and global
inequities and promote the health and social welfare of the world's citizens. The
goals and targets of this plan, the Millennium Development Goals Report, are to
be achieved by what year?
A) 2012
B) 2013
C) 2014
D) 2015
8. The Millennium Development Goals Report outlines eight broad goals and
specific targets for each goal. The eight goals and specific targets serve as
guiding principles for both public and private organizations that focus on
addressing global health and social welfare issues. What is one of the eight broad
goals of this report?
A) Eradicate poverty and hunger
B) Achieve universal secondary education
C) Reduce child morbidity
D) Improve maternal health morbidity rates
9. What is a key strategy to improving maternal health?
A) Decreased access to skilled birth attendants
B) Prevention of pregnancies in women older than 40 years
C) Prevention of multiple birth pregnancies
D) Increased access to prenatal care
10. What is a target area for the Millennium Development Goals campaign to
promote global health in order to ensure environmental sustainability?
A) Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe
drinking water and basic sanitation
B) Improve the lives of at least 200 million slum dwellers by 2020
C) Address the special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked countries,
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, and small island developing states
D) Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and
financial system
11. What is a target area for the Millennium Development Goals campaign to
promote global health in eradicating extreme hunger and poverty?
A) Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than
$5 a day
B) Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
C) Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to
complete a full course of primary schooling
D) Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by
2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
12. In the globalized 21st century, community health nurses committed to primary
health care need to focus on eight essential elements of primary health care. What
is one of the essential elements of primary health care?
A) Prevention and control of worldwide endemic diseases
B) Prevention of worldwide smoking
C) Proper food supplies and nutrition
D) Immunizations against all major common diseases
13. Which is a fact about the global burden of disease?
A) Approximately 5 million children younger than 5 years die every year.
B) HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of child deaths in Africa.
C) Lung cancer is contributing to the rise in cancer and heart disease.
D) Mental disorders such as depression are among the 20 leading causes of disability.
14. Approximately what percentage of complications of pregnancy account for
deaths in women of reproductive age worldwide?
A) 5%
B) 10%
C) 15%
D) 20%
15. There are many international organizations that are excellent resources for
promoting appropriate services and protecting the rights of persons with
disabilities. Which is a common cause of disability?
A) Cardiovascular disease
B) Cancer
C) Vision loss
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