GLBH | midterm Questions and Answers with 100% Correct
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Question 1.
What is the WHO definition of health?
Correct Answer: A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
Question 2.
Global health "addresses the health needs of the people of the whole planet above the
concerns of particular nations." (Brown et al. 2006:62) "Global health is an area for study,
research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in
health for all people worldwide. Global health emphasizes transnational health issues,
determinants, and solutions; involves many disciplines within and beyond the health
sciences and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration; and is a synthesis of population-
based prevention with individual-level clinical care." (Koplan, Jeffrey P et al. 2009). Global
Health can be defined as an interdisciplinary field of public health research, policy, and
practice that measures and combats health problems worldwide, by identifying health
patterns, defining determinants of health issues, and defining strategies for the alleviation
of the global health burden.(Singer, M. & Erickson)
Correct Answer: Global Health
Question 3.
• Talk to your neighbor about Fassin's view on GH and answer these questions: vWhat is
Fassin's main critique to the field of global health? What's global about global health?
What does health mean in global health?
• Fassin talks about Politics of Life. What does he mean by this?... why should we pay
attention?
Correct Answer: Fassin's critique to GH
Question 4.
What can make global health an "obscure object"
Correct Answer: There are assumptions about its meaning that don't relate to
the actual work of GH at the local level.
, Question 5.
"The main theoretical but also political challenge for medical anthropologists may thus be
to recognize the fine line between scientific detachment and moral involvement, to
paraphrase Norbert Elias (1987). We can designate this line as critique. As anthropologists
(as opposed to the citizens we also are and to the activists we may be) our modest but
crucial contribution to society - and in the present case to global health - is the critical
thinking we bring to its understanding, rather than the mere denunciation of its injustice.
Making intelligible what often remains obscured, reformulating problems to allow
alternative solutions, resisting individualistic and technical models to highlight the social
mechanisms and political issues of global health: this is where we are able to make a
difference. Indeed, we have the unique situation of being involved as social agents and
detached as social scientists (...) an uncomfortable position indeed, but the only one where
we can be heard. Our sole legitimacy to speak and our sole claim to be listened to depend
on our capacity to contest the untested assumptions, the most insidious being that on
which we found our moral certainties" (Fassin, 2012:115)
Correct Answer: Fassin critique
Question 6.
- Colonial era and the development of Tropical Medicine in Europe (1700s -1800s).
- 19th century debate on miasma v/s contagion.
- Epidemiology and the study of social forces contributing to the spread/distribution of
disease.
- International health (League of Nations, Rockefeller Foundation,
Correct Answer: Important developments
Question 7.
Colonial era and the development of Tropical Medicine in Europe (1700s -1800s). What
was the purpose of tropical medicine? To improve local conditions of existence in order to
facilitate economic and political control of indigenous populations, their labor, and the
natural resources of their homeland. Ex: quinine extraction in South America and malaria
control in India.
Correct Answer: Colonial medicine
Question 8.
A disease caused by mosquitoes implanting parasites in the blood. symptoms: fever, chills,
and flu-like illness From a modern "Western" perspective malaria has become, at most, a
potential pitfall of exotic holidays, a feature of colonial past. However, for many former
colonies it remains a constant, deadly threat: 2016-- 216 million About 1,700 cases of
malaria are diagnosed in the United States each year. The vast majority of cases in the
United States are in travelers and immigrants returning from countries where malaria
transmission occurs, many from sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Correct Answer: malaria
Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
What is the WHO definition of health?
Correct Answer: A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
Question 2.
Global health "addresses the health needs of the people of the whole planet above the
concerns of particular nations." (Brown et al. 2006:62) "Global health is an area for study,
research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in
health for all people worldwide. Global health emphasizes transnational health issues,
determinants, and solutions; involves many disciplines within and beyond the health
sciences and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration; and is a synthesis of population-
based prevention with individual-level clinical care." (Koplan, Jeffrey P et al. 2009). Global
Health can be defined as an interdisciplinary field of public health research, policy, and
practice that measures and combats health problems worldwide, by identifying health
patterns, defining determinants of health issues, and defining strategies for the alleviation
of the global health burden.(Singer, M. & Erickson)
Correct Answer: Global Health
Question 3.
• Talk to your neighbor about Fassin's view on GH and answer these questions: vWhat is
Fassin's main critique to the field of global health? What's global about global health?
What does health mean in global health?
• Fassin talks about Politics of Life. What does he mean by this?... why should we pay
attention?
Correct Answer: Fassin's critique to GH
Question 4.
What can make global health an "obscure object"
Correct Answer: There are assumptions about its meaning that don't relate to
the actual work of GH at the local level.
, Question 5.
"The main theoretical but also political challenge for medical anthropologists may thus be
to recognize the fine line between scientific detachment and moral involvement, to
paraphrase Norbert Elias (1987). We can designate this line as critique. As anthropologists
(as opposed to the citizens we also are and to the activists we may be) our modest but
crucial contribution to society - and in the present case to global health - is the critical
thinking we bring to its understanding, rather than the mere denunciation of its injustice.
Making intelligible what often remains obscured, reformulating problems to allow
alternative solutions, resisting individualistic and technical models to highlight the social
mechanisms and political issues of global health: this is where we are able to make a
difference. Indeed, we have the unique situation of being involved as social agents and
detached as social scientists (...) an uncomfortable position indeed, but the only one where
we can be heard. Our sole legitimacy to speak and our sole claim to be listened to depend
on our capacity to contest the untested assumptions, the most insidious being that on
which we found our moral certainties" (Fassin, 2012:115)
Correct Answer: Fassin critique
Question 6.
- Colonial era and the development of Tropical Medicine in Europe (1700s -1800s).
- 19th century debate on miasma v/s contagion.
- Epidemiology and the study of social forces contributing to the spread/distribution of
disease.
- International health (League of Nations, Rockefeller Foundation,
Correct Answer: Important developments
Question 7.
Colonial era and the development of Tropical Medicine in Europe (1700s -1800s). What
was the purpose of tropical medicine? To improve local conditions of existence in order to
facilitate economic and political control of indigenous populations, their labor, and the
natural resources of their homeland. Ex: quinine extraction in South America and malaria
control in India.
Correct Answer: Colonial medicine
Question 8.
A disease caused by mosquitoes implanting parasites in the blood. symptoms: fever, chills,
and flu-like illness From a modern "Western" perspective malaria has become, at most, a
potential pitfall of exotic holidays, a feature of colonial past. However, for many former
colonies it remains a constant, deadly threat: 2016-- 216 million About 1,700 cases of
malaria are diagnosed in the United States each year. The vast majority of cases in the
United States are in travelers and immigrants returning from countries where malaria
transmission occurs, many from sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Correct Answer: malaria
