Health and Global Environment

Question 1

what is global health

Answer 1

Health issues and concerns that transcend nat’l boundaries, best addressed by cooperative actions and solutions
Encompasses the behavioral and environmental risk fxrs of a community, influenced by politics, economics and culture

Question 2

what are determinants of health

Answer 2

factors that affect outcomes of health status (physical environment, social environment, health behaviors and individual health; access to health services and health policies/interventions

Question 3

what is an epidemiologic transition

Answer 3

high and fluctuating mortality due to poor health, epidemics and famine

Question 4

what is demographic transitions

Answer 4

High fertility and mortality, results in slow population growth
Improvement in hygiene/nutrition, decreased infectious disease
Decline in mortality and fertility
Increase proportion of elderly

Question 5

what are risk fxrs

Answer 5

personal habits/behaviors/environmental conditions, inborn or inherited, known to affect health-related cond.

Question 6

what is global burden of disease

Answer 6

risks to health/outcomes in populations/social settings

Question 7

risk fxrs for global burden of disease

Answer 7

child/maternal malnutrition
addictive substances
environment
sex/reproductive health

Question 8

millennium development goals

Answer 8

Eradicate poverty/hunger
Achieve primary education
Promote gender equality
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Ensure environmental stability

Question 9

healthcare migration increases the burden to care for a society, resulting in the need to shift tasks to nurses and community health workers, T or F

Answer 9

True