GCH 205 Final Exam questions well
answers graded A+
Why is global health important? - ANS ✔- Understand the progress that has already been made
- Understand the challenges that still remain
- Diseases are not limited by national boundaries
- Significant health disparities among groups
- Link between health and development
Define global health - ANS ✔- An area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on
improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide.
- Worldwide health improvement, reduction of disparities, and protection against global threats
that disregard national borders
What are the differences between public health and medicine? - ANS ✔In medicine, the patient
is the individual; in public health, the patient is the community
- Public health diagnoses the health of the community using public health sciences
- Treatment of the community involves new policies and interventions
- Goal of medicine is cure; goal of public health is prevention
What does "health promotes wealth" mean? - ANS ✔- Health has long been regarded as a
nation-building strategy
- Health and the provision of quality health services for all are vital to the growth and prosperity
of a country
- Health promotes wealth, and wealth promotes health, but only if it is evenly distributed
, What does the "right to health" mean? - ANS ✔- The economic, social and cultural right to a
universal minimum standard of health to which all individuals are entitled
- The concept of a right to health has been enumerated in international agreements including
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Which is the only communicable disease to be eradicated? - ANS ✔Smallpox
Most important Non communicable diseases: - ANS ✔- Non-communicable disease cannot be
spread by an infectious agent, they last a long time and they are often disabling
- Include cancers, diabetes, endocrine disorders, neuropsychiatric disorders, and sense organ
disorders
Heart disease - CVD
cancer
diabetes
mental disorders
vision/hearing loss
smoking/alcohol related illnesses
HBP/Obesity
stroke
COPD
Most important communicable diseases: - ANS ✔- illnesses caused by a particular infectious
agent that spread directly or indirectly from people to people, animals to people, or people to
animals
HIV/AIDS
answers graded A+
Why is global health important? - ANS ✔- Understand the progress that has already been made
- Understand the challenges that still remain
- Diseases are not limited by national boundaries
- Significant health disparities among groups
- Link between health and development
Define global health - ANS ✔- An area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on
improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide.
- Worldwide health improvement, reduction of disparities, and protection against global threats
that disregard national borders
What are the differences between public health and medicine? - ANS ✔In medicine, the patient
is the individual; in public health, the patient is the community
- Public health diagnoses the health of the community using public health sciences
- Treatment of the community involves new policies and interventions
- Goal of medicine is cure; goal of public health is prevention
What does "health promotes wealth" mean? - ANS ✔- Health has long been regarded as a
nation-building strategy
- Health and the provision of quality health services for all are vital to the growth and prosperity
of a country
- Health promotes wealth, and wealth promotes health, but only if it is evenly distributed
, What does the "right to health" mean? - ANS ✔- The economic, social and cultural right to a
universal minimum standard of health to which all individuals are entitled
- The concept of a right to health has been enumerated in international agreements including
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Which is the only communicable disease to be eradicated? - ANS ✔Smallpox
Most important Non communicable diseases: - ANS ✔- Non-communicable disease cannot be
spread by an infectious agent, they last a long time and they are often disabling
- Include cancers, diabetes, endocrine disorders, neuropsychiatric disorders, and sense organ
disorders
Heart disease - CVD
cancer
diabetes
mental disorders
vision/hearing loss
smoking/alcohol related illnesses
HBP/Obesity
stroke
COPD
Most important communicable diseases: - ANS ✔- illnesses caused by a particular infectious
agent that spread directly or indirectly from people to people, animals to people, or people to
animals
HIV/AIDS
