MHA 708 Exam C questions with correct answers
Which 3 sectors make up the WHO? Correct Answer-- World Health
Assembly
- Executive Board
- Secretariat
This branch of the WHO has delegates from all member countries:
Correct Answer-World Health Assembly
How many countries have delegates on the WHO's World Health
Assembly? Correct Answer-193
This branch of the WHO serves as the main policy implementation
body: Correct Answer-Secretariat
This branch of the WHO facilitates the work of the World Health
Assembly and advises on technical issues related to health (UN): Correct
Answer-Exexutive Board
What are the 6 core functions of the WHO? Correct Answer-1. Act as a
leader and partner on health issues worldwide (UN)
2 Set research priorities and encourage the sharing of health-related
knowledge
3. Establish standards of practice and support and monitor their adoption
(Help in individual countries)
,4. Advance policy options founded on ethical and evidence-based
principles
5. Lend technical support to health initiatives and contribute to capacity
building (also provide emergency aid)
6. Monitor health issues around the world and identify patterns and
trends
Name a few things that the WHO coordinates: Correct Answer--
population health programs
- mass immunization campaigns
- emergency response efforts to natural disasters and disease outbreaks
- provides statistical monitoring of disease prevalence
What is the WHO policymaking process? Correct Answer-1. Proposal
submitted
2. Preliminary impact analysis by WHO's director general
3. Committee examines proposal and reports at plenary meetings
4. World Health Assembly Votes
5. Policy implemented by Secretariat
How do the WHO and UN interact? Correct Answer-The WHO is the
directing and coordinating authority on international health within the
UN. WHO Director-General in meetings of the UN Security Council,
the General Assembly of the UN, the UN Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC) as well as other intergovernmental forums, interagency
briefings, events and interaction with the UN Press Corps.
, What are the WHO efforts to eradicate smallpox? Correct Answer-WHO
smallpox eradication campaign was launched in its intensified form in
1967, and in four years had wiped out smallpox in Latin America. Four
more years toppled the disease's last bastion in Asia. The multi-national
teams closed in on Somalia, scene of "the last stand".
Last smallpox outbreak was 14 yrs ago. Could still come back since the
disease lives in apes
What are the WHO efforts to eradicate polio? Correct Answer-GPEI -
global polio eradication initiative
Polio is now 90% gone
What are the WHO efforts to work on cholera? Correct Answer-Global
Task Force on Cholera Control (GFTCC)
Created in 1992 in the context of a cholera outbreak in Peru.
Renewed 2011 following the emergence of cholera in Haiti
Revitalized 2014
Roadmap to end Cholera launched 2017
Which 3 sectors make up the WHO? Correct Answer-- World Health
Assembly
- Executive Board
- Secretariat
This branch of the WHO has delegates from all member countries:
Correct Answer-World Health Assembly
How many countries have delegates on the WHO's World Health
Assembly? Correct Answer-193
This branch of the WHO serves as the main policy implementation
body: Correct Answer-Secretariat
This branch of the WHO facilitates the work of the World Health
Assembly and advises on technical issues related to health (UN): Correct
Answer-Exexutive Board
What are the 6 core functions of the WHO? Correct Answer-1. Act as a
leader and partner on health issues worldwide (UN)
2 Set research priorities and encourage the sharing of health-related
knowledge
3. Establish standards of practice and support and monitor their adoption
(Help in individual countries)
,4. Advance policy options founded on ethical and evidence-based
principles
5. Lend technical support to health initiatives and contribute to capacity
building (also provide emergency aid)
6. Monitor health issues around the world and identify patterns and
trends
Name a few things that the WHO coordinates: Correct Answer--
population health programs
- mass immunization campaigns
- emergency response efforts to natural disasters and disease outbreaks
- provides statistical monitoring of disease prevalence
What is the WHO policymaking process? Correct Answer-1. Proposal
submitted
2. Preliminary impact analysis by WHO's director general
3. Committee examines proposal and reports at plenary meetings
4. World Health Assembly Votes
5. Policy implemented by Secretariat
How do the WHO and UN interact? Correct Answer-The WHO is the
directing and coordinating authority on international health within the
UN. WHO Director-General in meetings of the UN Security Council,
the General Assembly of the UN, the UN Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC) as well as other intergovernmental forums, interagency
briefings, events and interaction with the UN Press Corps.
, What are the WHO efforts to eradicate smallpox? Correct Answer-WHO
smallpox eradication campaign was launched in its intensified form in
1967, and in four years had wiped out smallpox in Latin America. Four
more years toppled the disease's last bastion in Asia. The multi-national
teams closed in on Somalia, scene of "the last stand".
Last smallpox outbreak was 14 yrs ago. Could still come back since the
disease lives in apes
What are the WHO efforts to eradicate polio? Correct Answer-GPEI -
global polio eradication initiative
Polio is now 90% gone
What are the WHO efforts to work on cholera? Correct Answer-Global
Task Force on Cholera Control (GFTCC)
Created in 1992 in the context of a cholera outbreak in Peru.
Renewed 2011 following the emergence of cholera in Haiti
Revitalized 2014
Roadmap to end Cholera launched 2017
