Public Health 127 Exam Questions AND Correct Answers
Drivers of WHP in Germany - ✔✔- Legal foundation:health
insurances provide services
- WHP interventions follow quality management guidelines
- Reward system: tax credit
- Health insurance companies: run health promotion
intervention at the workplace themselves or in collaboration
with employers liability insurance association
Drivers of Workplace Health Promotion in the Gulf
Cooperation Council - ✔✔- Rise of workers' committees to
guard interests and represent concerns of employees.
- Increasing awareness of the impact of sick workers on
business.
- Healthcare providers and ministries of health are pushing
preventive medicine and health promotion concepts.
- Large companies have effective OH practices while small and
medium companies tend to have no/limited provisions.
Health challenges differ across all GCC states, but what
disease remains the leading cause of death for all of them?
a. Heart disease
, b. Cerebrovascular disease
c.Diabetes
d.Accidentse.
e. Lung disease - ✔✔a. Heart disease
Health Risks and Problems in the Gulf Cooperation Council -
✔✔- Instance of communicable diseases decreasing
- Health -differences between nationals and foreigners (
mostly manual laborersin challenging conditions, mostly from
Asia)
- Rise in non-communicable diseases: leader in mortality rate.
- Diabetes: 6 GCC countries place on list of top ten states with
prevalence of diabetes. The UAE has prevalence of 19.5%.
-Diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovasculardisease, and
nephritis are on rise
-obseity
-car accidents: top five cause of death & Arab world has only
2% of world's motor vehicles but 6% of all traffic fatalities.
Healthcare System in Germany - ✔✔- First country to
introduce national social security system
Drivers of WHP in Germany - ✔✔- Legal foundation:health
insurances provide services
- WHP interventions follow quality management guidelines
- Reward system: tax credit
- Health insurance companies: run health promotion
intervention at the workplace themselves or in collaboration
with employers liability insurance association
Drivers of Workplace Health Promotion in the Gulf
Cooperation Council - ✔✔- Rise of workers' committees to
guard interests and represent concerns of employees.
- Increasing awareness of the impact of sick workers on
business.
- Healthcare providers and ministries of health are pushing
preventive medicine and health promotion concepts.
- Large companies have effective OH practices while small and
medium companies tend to have no/limited provisions.
Health challenges differ across all GCC states, but what
disease remains the leading cause of death for all of them?
a. Heart disease
, b. Cerebrovascular disease
c.Diabetes
d.Accidentse.
e. Lung disease - ✔✔a. Heart disease
Health Risks and Problems in the Gulf Cooperation Council -
✔✔- Instance of communicable diseases decreasing
- Health -differences between nationals and foreigners (
mostly manual laborersin challenging conditions, mostly from
Asia)
- Rise in non-communicable diseases: leader in mortality rate.
- Diabetes: 6 GCC countries place on list of top ten states with
prevalence of diabetes. The UAE has prevalence of 19.5%.
-Diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovasculardisease, and
nephritis are on rise
-obseity
-car accidents: top five cause of death & Arab world has only
2% of world's motor vehicles but 6% of all traffic fatalities.
Healthcare System in Germany - ✔✔- First country to
introduce national social security system
