Exam 1 Flashcards
(29 cards)
The role of non-state actors, including Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), is considered a key issue during which health “Era”?
The Global Health Era.
Who is widely regarded as a founder of the primary health care movement and coined the phrase “health for all by the year 2000”?
None of the above (Halfdan Mahler).
When Cholera broke out on Broad Street there were several theories about the cause. Which was correct?
Miasmatist.
Which human disease has been eradicated?
Smallpox.
What came about from the idea that comprehensive health care is not economically efficient?
Selective Primary Health Care.
How did John Snow determine that the source of the Cholera outbreak was the Broad Street pump?
He created a map that illustrated the proximity of deaths to the Broad Street pump.
What are some characteristics of the “Golden Age of Global Health”?
All of the above (The AIDS movement drew support from activists, influencers, and celebrities.
Drug prices decreased and international funding increased.
Health providers began to use a combination of “horizontal” and “vertical” health care services.
The NIH found that the antiretroviral treatments not only increased the health of those living with AIDS but also prevented further transmission).
Why is it that Haitians believe in Voodoo, or sorcery, according to Paul Farmer?
They believe in sorcery because their culture evolved in the absence of medicine, and causes of illness were explained as magic spells sent out by enemies.
What are some of the lessons about AIDS and poverty as presented by Dr. Jim Kim and Paul Farmer in 2006?
All of the above (Charging for AIDS prevention and care will pose problems for those living in poverty.
The effectiveness of AIDS care will require strengthening and rebuilding of health care systems.
The failure to treat AIDS in poor countries is at least partially due to a lack of trained health care personnel).
In the fourth chapter of Mountains Beyond Mountains, Paul Farmer did a study between two groups of TB patients to determine if their beliefs in voodoo made a difference in their likelihood to complete their full round of medication. What were the results of the study?
Everyone who received cash stipends and other services, including visits from community health workers made a full recovery.
Berger and Luckmann define the sociology of knowledge as:
Whatever passes for knowledge in a society, regardless of the ultimate validity or invalidity of such “knowledge.”
According to Frenk et al, what is interdependence?
It refers to the distribution of power, responsibility, and capacity to respond to health threats.
Which of the following is not one of the four roots/cultures of global health that developed in the 1800s and continue to lead health efforts/agendas?
Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity.
Why is the story of the Broad Street pump significant in global health?
It was an informed intervention based on a scientifically sound theory of disease.
According to Kleinman, Das, and Lock, social suffering results from
All of the above (What political, economic, and institutional power does to people.
How political, economic, and institutional power influences responses to social problems.
Institutions and their agents can perpetrate violence in the name of health and welfare).
What did former CDC director William Foege mean by saying that vaccination programs are a “social contract” in the film Rx for Survival: Disease Warriors?
In order to be effective, a majority of people must participate to benefit the population.
What did Dr. Jim Kim and Paul Farmer believe it would help to solve the continuing problem of AIDS in the year 2006?
More funding and increase in access to resources in low-income countries.
Which of the following was a tactic used by the WHO in its smallpox elimination efforts in Bangladesh?
All of the above (Focused programs of surveillance in endemic districts.
Confining infected patients to their home and guarded isolation.
Forced immunization for anyone within 1 kilometer of an outbreak).
What was the first vaccine Louis Pasteur successfully used on a human?
Rabies
In what ways did the county shortcut water testing regulations in Flint, Michigan?
All of the above (They had people testing for lead concentration levels “flush out water” before sampling water from the tap.
Water was collected via a small bottleneck that was not indicative of how people normally receive water out of the tap.
The county sampled some of the wrong locations and did not sample as many places as they should).
Which of the following articles talked about the importance of citizen science and individual efforts to question governmental authority?
What Went Wrong in Flint.
Robert Merton discusses well-intentioned initiatives that result in undesirable outcomes in his theory of:
Unanticipated consequences of purposive social action.
Which of the following is not one of the social processes identified as harmful to mental health in the article about water scarcity?
None of the above.
The Alma Ata conference:
Emphasized health as a human right.
