GCH 205 – Global Community Health, Chapter 12 and
Beyond Summary
Name 3 new products that are in need? They need to be east to transport, heat stable, and not
require refrigeration’s - ANS ✔Diagnostics, Drugs, Vaccines,
Characteristics of Diagnostics - ANS ✔Specific, sensitive, inexpensive, easy to use, non invasive,
and heat stable
Characteristics of Drugs - ANS ✔Safe, effective, inexpensive, have a long shelf life, and easy to
use for patients
Characteristics of Vaccines - ANS ✔Safe, effective, inexpensive, include several antigens, and
require only 1 dose to confer lifelong immunity
What are push-pull mechanisms? - ANS ✔Push mechanisms: These type of mechanisms refer to
mechanisms meant to encourage product development by reducing the risks & costs of
investments
Pull mechanisms: these type of mechanisms assure a future return in the event that a product is
produced
What are public-private partnerships? - ANS ✔Also referred to as product development
partnerships (PDPs) and are organized on a not-for-profit basis. They aim to attract private,
public, and philanthropic funds to invest in needed research and development, tapping the
strengths of the private sector in product development as they do so.
What is mHealth? - ANS ✔Aka mobile health. Mobile health is medical and public health
practice supported by mobile devices such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices,
personal digital assistants and other wireless devices
, How can relief agencies work best in disasters and in refugee camps? - ANS ✔
What are the immediate health concerns to address in refugee camps? - ANS ✔Identify
vulnerabilities, develop scenarios of what might happen and its likelihood, outline the role that
different actors will play in the event of an emergency, train first responders and managers to
deal with such emergencies
What countries are at current risk of major famine (means extreme scarcity of food)? - ANS
✔Yemen (14mil), South Sudan (4.9mi), Somalia (2.9mil), Nigeria (1.8mil)
What's the difference between IDPS and refugees? - ANS ✔A refugee is a person who is
OUTSIDE his or her country of nationality or habitual residence due to fear while a IDP is a
person who is forced to flee or migrate and leave their hoes during a disaster or complex
humanitarian emergency BUT stay in the country in which they were living
Define natural disasters and CHEs - ANS ✔CHE: "complex, multi-party, intra-state conflict
resulting in a humanitarian disaster which might constitute a multi-dimensional risks or threats
to regional and international security
What is Haddon's Matrix? - ANS ✔A theoretical foundation of prevention and controls effort by
demonstrating interaction of the environment, vector, host. Prevention measure focus n
education, enforcement, and engineering efforts within this context. - I.e. Road Traffic Injury:
Environment-roadway, Vector-vehicle, Host-human driver and behavior
What are risk factors for unintentional injuries? - ANS ✔Developmental immaturity, poverty's
influence on ability to provide adult supervision & child care, exposure to unsafe workplaces,
mostly associated w/ physical activity & vary w/ SES
Know which ages/demographic groups suffer most from specific unintentional injuries? - ANS
✔- in 20190, 90% of deaths from unintentional injuries were in low-and middle countries.
Beyond Summary
Name 3 new products that are in need? They need to be east to transport, heat stable, and not
require refrigeration’s - ANS ✔Diagnostics, Drugs, Vaccines,
Characteristics of Diagnostics - ANS ✔Specific, sensitive, inexpensive, easy to use, non invasive,
and heat stable
Characteristics of Drugs - ANS ✔Safe, effective, inexpensive, have a long shelf life, and easy to
use for patients
Characteristics of Vaccines - ANS ✔Safe, effective, inexpensive, include several antigens, and
require only 1 dose to confer lifelong immunity
What are push-pull mechanisms? - ANS ✔Push mechanisms: These type of mechanisms refer to
mechanisms meant to encourage product development by reducing the risks & costs of
investments
Pull mechanisms: these type of mechanisms assure a future return in the event that a product is
produced
What are public-private partnerships? - ANS ✔Also referred to as product development
partnerships (PDPs) and are organized on a not-for-profit basis. They aim to attract private,
public, and philanthropic funds to invest in needed research and development, tapping the
strengths of the private sector in product development as they do so.
What is mHealth? - ANS ✔Aka mobile health. Mobile health is medical and public health
practice supported by mobile devices such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices,
personal digital assistants and other wireless devices
, How can relief agencies work best in disasters and in refugee camps? - ANS ✔
What are the immediate health concerns to address in refugee camps? - ANS ✔Identify
vulnerabilities, develop scenarios of what might happen and its likelihood, outline the role that
different actors will play in the event of an emergency, train first responders and managers to
deal with such emergencies
What countries are at current risk of major famine (means extreme scarcity of food)? - ANS
✔Yemen (14mil), South Sudan (4.9mi), Somalia (2.9mil), Nigeria (1.8mil)
What's the difference between IDPS and refugees? - ANS ✔A refugee is a person who is
OUTSIDE his or her country of nationality or habitual residence due to fear while a IDP is a
person who is forced to flee or migrate and leave their hoes during a disaster or complex
humanitarian emergency BUT stay in the country in which they were living
Define natural disasters and CHEs - ANS ✔CHE: "complex, multi-party, intra-state conflict
resulting in a humanitarian disaster which might constitute a multi-dimensional risks or threats
to regional and international security
What is Haddon's Matrix? - ANS ✔A theoretical foundation of prevention and controls effort by
demonstrating interaction of the environment, vector, host. Prevention measure focus n
education, enforcement, and engineering efforts within this context. - I.e. Road Traffic Injury:
Environment-roadway, Vector-vehicle, Host-human driver and behavior
What are risk factors for unintentional injuries? - ANS ✔Developmental immaturity, poverty's
influence on ability to provide adult supervision & child care, exposure to unsafe workplaces,
mostly associated w/ physical activity & vary w/ SES
Know which ages/demographic groups suffer most from specific unintentional injuries? - ANS
✔- in 20190, 90% of deaths from unintentional injuries were in low-and middle countries.
