Chapter 1

Question 1

Why study global health?

Answer 1

1. Understand the progress that has been made so far
2. Understand remaining challenges of global health
3. it’s easier for diseases to spread
4. link between health and development
5. we live in a globalized world

Question 2

A state of complete mental, physical and social well being. It is not the absence of disease or injury

Answer 2

health

Question 3

The science of preventing disease, promoting health and efficiency, educating communities, organizing medical services, and development of social practices to ensure a standard of living adequate for good health

Answer 3

public health

Question 4

What are the key tenants of public health?

Answer 4

prevention, respect for human rights, developing community health, evidence-based

Question 5

The scientific goal of developing individual services for the diagnosis, treatment and care for individual patients

Answer 5

medicine

Question 6

What does public health consider to be it’s strongest resource for prevention?

Answer 6

vaccines

Question 7

Areas where global health has failed

Answer 7

disparities in acess to medical services, life expectancy, social justice goals

Question 8

The scientific study of world wide health improvement that focuses on transnational efforts, solutions, determinates and issues related to health and beyond.

Answer 8

global health

Question 9

Protection of colonialist from tropical disease

Answer 9

global health 1.0

Question 10

wealthier countries helping countries with less

Answer 10

global health 2.0

Question 11

Collective action, shared risks and shared responsibilities to health

Answer 11

global health 3.0

Question 12

How to classify countries

Answer 12

by incomes level based on gross national income

Question 13

a factor that may lead to the development of a disease or an injury

Answer 13

risk factor

Question 14

diseases that cannot be passed from person to person by an infectious agent

Answer 14

noncommunicable disease

Question 15

disease that can be spread by an infectious agent

Answer 15

communicable disease

Question 16

How is poor health related to development?

Answer 16

poor health can cause children to not reach their full potential and diminish the economy of a country

Question 17

Why is global health needed?

Answer 17

some problems can only be solved with a global approach

Question 18

A health campaign to immunize children in a community. This is an example of what?

Answer 18

public health

Question 19

guiding factors of public health

Answer 19

prevention, respect for human rights, commitment to developing community health, evidence-based, taking account of a wide range of values, beliefs and culture and building collaborations in the community

Question 20

guiding principals of global health

Answer 20

use a global perspective, cooperative action, interdisciplinary approach, multilevel interventions and comprehensive health policies and financing

Question 21

creating a program to help undernutrition among children in South Asia and Africa is an example of what?

Answer 21

global health

Question 22

Important issues in global health

Answer 22

impact of the environment, how countries manage their health systems, search for new technologies, globalization, epidemiological changes

Question 23

the integrative effort of multiple disciplines to attain optimal health for all animals, humans and the environment

Answer 23

one health

Question 24

the achievement of the highest attainable standard of living worldwide.

Answer 24

planetary health

Question 25

World bank country income groups

Answer 25

low income, lower middle income, upper middle income, high income

Question 26

17 global goals that focus on improving the well being of humans, animals and the environment

Answer 26

sustainable development goals

Question 27

SDG that has a direct link with global health

Answer 27

goal 3: good health and well-being

Question 28

SDG that have an indirect link with global health

Answer 28

1. no poverty 2. zero hunger 4 quality education 6. clean water and sanitation

Question 29

When are the SDGs supposed to achieved by?

Answer 29

2020 or 2030

Question 30

8 goals related to improving the health care of the world

Answer 30

Millennium development goals

Question 31

Who and when created the small pox vaccine?

Answer 31

Edward jenner, 1798

Question 32

When did eradication of small pox become a goal and why

Answer 32

1959, a form of the vaccine that did not need refrigeration was created and reusable needs

Question 33

What techniques did the small pox eradication team use to get people vaccinated?

Answer 33

training villagers, heard immunity, ring vaccination, using pre-existing social circles to find people

Question 34

when was small pox eradicated?

Answer 34

1980

Question 35

What makes small pox unique and easy to vaccinate against?

Answer 35

spreads directly between people, easy to tell who has it, no reservoirs, survivors gained lifetime immunity, became infectious when symptoms showed

Question 36

What was unique about the small pox eradication team?

Answer 36

small team responsible, often only one person in charge of each country's efforts, flexible individuals

Question 37

What are the 8 MDGs?

Answer 37

1. Eradicate poverty and hunger 2. universal primary education 3. gender equality 4. reduce child mortality 5. reduce maternal mortality 6. combat HIV/AID 7. develop global partnership 8. environmental protection