HLTH 3115S-1, Public and Global Health, Week 4 Midterm Exam

1. Question: Many developed countries are beginning to struggle with issues related to, which include increasing numbers of elderly and not enough younger people to replace them in the workforce. 2. Question: What do recovery rates for chagas disease and leishmanias is depend upon? 3. Question: The laws, regulations, and priorities that govern your community or state and how these components influence the health of individual citizens are known as which type of health determinant? 4. Question: Which MDG addresses waterborne diseases? 5. Question: According to MDG 7, how can participating nations of the UN combat global climate change? 6. Question: When does population growth occur? 7. Question: Which of the following measures how many births have occurred in a year per 1,000 people in a population? 8. Question: Why don't the same control methods work for all types of vectors? 9. Question: In highly populated urban areas in , many children suffer from asthma and respiratory illness to a much greater degree than most anywhere else in the world as the result of air pollution due to industrialization and dense populations. 10. Question: The design and implementation of must factor in local cultural belief systems and practices. 11. Question: Which of the following diseases was spread through the movement of goods and people across borders from Asia into Europe and on to the Americas during the nineteenth century? 12. Question: In addition to political stability, the ability tois important in the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. 13. Question: The parasitic disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes and is particularly prevalent in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa is called: 14. Question: Thethreecommunicablediseasesthataretheleadingcausesofdeathgloballyare HIV/AIDS, malaria, and . 15. Question: Which of the following calculations include deaths from specific causes in the numerator and the number of people at risk for dying from that cause in the denominator? 16. Question: Personal and inborn features such as sex, age, and are leading determinants of women's health. 17. Question: WASH factors include , sanitation, and hygiene. 18. Question: Which infectious disease makes the body more at risk for other infections? 19. Question: The three core functions of public health are assessment, policy, and what else? 20. Question: Some of the underlying determinants for waterborne diseases include crowded living conditions, inadequate access to clean water and sanitation, poor hygiene, and inadequate _____ . 21. Question: There are two issues that are the basis for much of the global burden of disease and premature death in poorer countries: poverty-based inequities and what else? 22. Question: In addition to increased vector range and climate change, which is a primary environmental condition that impacts low and middle income countries? 23. Question: Which of the following is the proportion of population with a disease at a specific point in time? 24. Question: According to the World Health Organization's (WHO), is "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." 25. Question: In countries with high HIV transmission rates, views about have had a significant influence on the continued transmission of the virus. 26. Question: Studying assists us in gaining an understanding of the connections between human populations and the environment. 27. Question: Lower- and middle-income countries accounted for 94 percent of the 138 million DALYs reported in 2004. How many of these came from road traffic injuries? 28. Question: Which of the following offers equal opportunity to enjoy the highest attainable level of health, and is achieved through environmental health protection policies and community care programs? 29. Question: was spread from person to person through drop lets in the air from a sneeze, a cough or contact with nasal secretions during the Crusades. 30. Question: is an airborne disease that can be transmitted by coughing, speaking or even singing. 31. Question: Which vector-borne disease is commonly introduced through rodent infestation on cargo ships? 32. Question: is the collection, analysis, and use of data to target public health prevention. 33. Question: Alexander Fleming, a Scottish biologist, defined new horizons for modern antibiotics with his discovery of . 34. Question: indirectly addresses air borned is ease because it is aimed at eradicating extreme hunger and poverty. 35. Question: The resulted in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe between the years 1346 and53. 36. Question: What communicable diseases have in common is that they are spread through pathogenic . 37. Question: Bacteria or fungi present different risks to populations and therefore varying methods of prevention should be considered. What are these examples of? 38. Question: Which of the following is defined as "the art and science of motivating people to enhance their lifestyle to achieve complete health, not just the absence of disease?" 39. Question: How does a working surveillance system assist Healthy People 2020 in promoting health? 40. Question: Which of the following is a typical symptom of the initial stage in the WHO clinical staging system of HIV infection in adults, adolescents, infants, and children?