global health perspectives (chapter 1-16)
"The rights-based approach to health" suggests that: - ✅✅ -- Health policies,
programs, and practices should be considered in terms of their impact on
human rights
- The fulfillment of human rights should be central to health efforts
- The health impacts of human rights violations should be considered
✅✅
99% of annual deaths for children under the age of five takes place in: -
-Low- and middle-income countries
A child suffering from birth asphyxia: - ✅✅-Is severely deficient in oxygen
A conditional cash transfer is: -✅✅ -A cash payment to someone, provided
they have engaged in certain agreed health behaviors
A consistent issue in humanitarian relief in health has been: - ✅✅ --
Coordination of relief efforts across agencies
- Ensuring that this work is done in professional
- Ensuring that this work is done in evidence-based ways and is as
cost-effective as possible
(all of these are correct)
✅✅
A cost-effective approach to addressing diarrhea in low-income settings is: -
-Oral rehydration therapy
✅✅
A country with a gross national income per capita of $1,000 is classified by the
World Bank as a(n): - -Low-middle-income country
A DALY measures: - ✅✅-The sum years lost due to premature death and
years lived with disability, calculated on a weighted basis
A noncommunicable disease is one that: - ✅✅-Cannot be spread from
person to person by an infectious agent
✅✅
A number of countries have well defined indigenous systems of medicine
including: - -China
, A parasitic or infectious cause that is a leading cause of death for children
✅✅
under the age of five in Sub-Saharan Africa but not very important in other
regions is: - -Malaria
A primary risk factor for diabetes is: - ✅✅-Lack of physical activity
✅✅
A realistic and cost-effective starting point for emergency services in
low-income countries could be: - -Emergency transport
A trigger for the health effects of a CHE is when: - ✅✅-The crude death rate
is twice the normal rate
Addressing food insecurity issues is likely to require: - ✅✅
-Action by a
number of ministries and agencies, working in coordinated ways
Addressing malaria requires, among other things: - ✅✅ -People sleeping
under bed-nets, indoor residual spraying, intermittent treatment of pregnant
women and infants and early confirmed diagnosis and treatment
✅✅
Adolescents and young adults globally are seeing increasing rates of: -
-Obesity
✅✅
Alcohol is an important risk factor for adolescents, except in which regions: -
-South Asia and The Middle East and North Africa
Ambient particulate matter pollution is a major risk factor for: - ✅✅-Heart
disease
Stroke
COPD
(All of these are correct)
An example of "Western" biomedicine is: - ✅✅-The use of antibiotics for
treating a health condition
An example of an emerging infectious disease would be: - ✅✅-HIV in the
1980s
An internally displaced person is: - ✅✅-Someone who leaves their home
because of forced displacement of perceived political, economic or other
threat but who has not crossed an international border
"The rights-based approach to health" suggests that: - ✅✅ -- Health policies,
programs, and practices should be considered in terms of their impact on
human rights
- The fulfillment of human rights should be central to health efforts
- The health impacts of human rights violations should be considered
✅✅
99% of annual deaths for children under the age of five takes place in: -
-Low- and middle-income countries
A child suffering from birth asphyxia: - ✅✅-Is severely deficient in oxygen
A conditional cash transfer is: -✅✅ -A cash payment to someone, provided
they have engaged in certain agreed health behaviors
A consistent issue in humanitarian relief in health has been: - ✅✅ --
Coordination of relief efforts across agencies
- Ensuring that this work is done in professional
- Ensuring that this work is done in evidence-based ways and is as
cost-effective as possible
(all of these are correct)
✅✅
A cost-effective approach to addressing diarrhea in low-income settings is: -
-Oral rehydration therapy
✅✅
A country with a gross national income per capita of $1,000 is classified by the
World Bank as a(n): - -Low-middle-income country
A DALY measures: - ✅✅-The sum years lost due to premature death and
years lived with disability, calculated on a weighted basis
A noncommunicable disease is one that: - ✅✅-Cannot be spread from
person to person by an infectious agent
✅✅
A number of countries have well defined indigenous systems of medicine
including: - -China
, A parasitic or infectious cause that is a leading cause of death for children
✅✅
under the age of five in Sub-Saharan Africa but not very important in other
regions is: - -Malaria
A primary risk factor for diabetes is: - ✅✅-Lack of physical activity
✅✅
A realistic and cost-effective starting point for emergency services in
low-income countries could be: - -Emergency transport
A trigger for the health effects of a CHE is when: - ✅✅-The crude death rate
is twice the normal rate
Addressing food insecurity issues is likely to require: - ✅✅
-Action by a
number of ministries and agencies, working in coordinated ways
Addressing malaria requires, among other things: - ✅✅ -People sleeping
under bed-nets, indoor residual spraying, intermittent treatment of pregnant
women and infants and early confirmed diagnosis and treatment
✅✅
Adolescents and young adults globally are seeing increasing rates of: -
-Obesity
✅✅
Alcohol is an important risk factor for adolescents, except in which regions: -
-South Asia and The Middle East and North Africa
Ambient particulate matter pollution is a major risk factor for: - ✅✅-Heart
disease
Stroke
COPD
(All of these are correct)
An example of "Western" biomedicine is: - ✅✅-The use of antibiotics for
treating a health condition
An example of an emerging infectious disease would be: - ✅✅-HIV in the
1980s
An internally displaced person is: - ✅✅-Someone who leaves their home
because of forced displacement of perceived political, economic or other
threat but who has not crossed an international border
