GCH 205 Exam 1 ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
WHO definition of health. - CORRECT ANSWER "Health is a state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" World Health
Organization (WHO) 1948
Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging
life, and promoting physical health and mental health and efficiency through organized community
efforts toward a sanitary environment.
Public Health Interventions - CORRECT ANSWER The control of community infections; the
education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene; the organization of medical and nursing
service for the early diagnosis and treatment of disease; and the development of the social machinery
to ensure to every individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of
health.
Global Health - CORRECT ANSWER Health problems, issues and concerns that transcend
national boundaries and may best be addressed by cooperative actions.
Why is Global Health important? - CORRECT ANSWER Diseases are not limited by national
boundaries
Understand the progress that has already been made
Understand the challenges that still remain
Significant health disparities among groups
Link between health and development
Millennium Development Goals (MDG's) - CORRECT ANSWER Explicit statement of goals
for development efforts, set in 2015.
MDG Goal 1 - CORRECT ANSWER Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty
MDG Goal 2 - CORRECT ANSWER Achieve universal primary education
, MDG Goal 3 - CORRECT ANSWER Promote gender equality and empower women
MDG Goal 4 - CORRECT ANSWER Reduce child mortality
MDG Goal 5 - CORRECT ANSWER Improve maternal health
MDG Goal 6 - CORRECT ANSWER Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
MDG Goal 7 - CORRECT ANSWER Ensure environmental sustainability
MDG Goal 8 - CORRECT ANSWER Develop a global partnership for development
Morbidity - CORRECT ANSWER Sickness or any departure, subjective or objective, from a
psychological or physiological state of well-being.
Mortality - CORRECT ANSWER Death
Disability - CORRECT ANSWER Temporary or long-term reduction in a person's capacity to
function.
Injury - CORRECT ANSWER Include road traffic injuries, falls, self-inflicted injuries, and
violence, among other things.
Communicable Disease - CORRECT ANSWER Illnesses caused by a particular infectious
agent that spread directly or indirectly from people to people, animals to people, or people to animals.
Non-communicable Disease - CORRECT ANSWER Illnesses not spread by an infectious
agent.
Life Expectancy - CORRECT ANSWER The average number of years a newborn baby could
expect to live if current mortality trends were to continue for the rest of the newborn's life. High
income region = 79 years, Sub-Saharan Africa = 57 years
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
WHO definition of health. - CORRECT ANSWER "Health is a state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" World Health
Organization (WHO) 1948
Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging
life, and promoting physical health and mental health and efficiency through organized community
efforts toward a sanitary environment.
Public Health Interventions - CORRECT ANSWER The control of community infections; the
education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene; the organization of medical and nursing
service for the early diagnosis and treatment of disease; and the development of the social machinery
to ensure to every individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of
health.
Global Health - CORRECT ANSWER Health problems, issues and concerns that transcend
national boundaries and may best be addressed by cooperative actions.
Why is Global Health important? - CORRECT ANSWER Diseases are not limited by national
boundaries
Understand the progress that has already been made
Understand the challenges that still remain
Significant health disparities among groups
Link between health and development
Millennium Development Goals (MDG's) - CORRECT ANSWER Explicit statement of goals
for development efforts, set in 2015.
MDG Goal 1 - CORRECT ANSWER Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty
MDG Goal 2 - CORRECT ANSWER Achieve universal primary education
, MDG Goal 3 - CORRECT ANSWER Promote gender equality and empower women
MDG Goal 4 - CORRECT ANSWER Reduce child mortality
MDG Goal 5 - CORRECT ANSWER Improve maternal health
MDG Goal 6 - CORRECT ANSWER Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
MDG Goal 7 - CORRECT ANSWER Ensure environmental sustainability
MDG Goal 8 - CORRECT ANSWER Develop a global partnership for development
Morbidity - CORRECT ANSWER Sickness or any departure, subjective or objective, from a
psychological or physiological state of well-being.
Mortality - CORRECT ANSWER Death
Disability - CORRECT ANSWER Temporary or long-term reduction in a person's capacity to
function.
Injury - CORRECT ANSWER Include road traffic injuries, falls, self-inflicted injuries, and
violence, among other things.
Communicable Disease - CORRECT ANSWER Illnesses caused by a particular infectious
agent that spread directly or indirectly from people to people, animals to people, or people to animals.
Non-communicable Disease - CORRECT ANSWER Illnesses not spread by an infectious
agent.
Life Expectancy - CORRECT ANSWER The average number of years a newborn baby could
expect to live if current mortality trends were to continue for the rest of the newborn's life. High
income region = 79 years, Sub-Saharan Africa = 57 years
