WRITING MARK SCHEME JUNE
PRACTICE EXAMINATION 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED
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◍ The US healthcare system is.
Answer: fragmented, complex, and imperfect
◍ Which 3 sectors make up the WHO?.
Answer: - World Health Assembly- Executive Board- Secretariat
◍ a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the
absence of disease of infirmity.
Answer: WHO definition of health
◍ There is no universally accepted definition of ________ in the US.
Answer: health
◍ This branch of the WHO has delegates from all member countries:.
Answer: World Health Assembly
◍ 5 measures of health.
Answer: life expectancy, mortality, morbidity, disability, quality of life
◍ how much healthcare spending is spent on mental health.
Answer: 5.5%
◍ 5 mental health measures of health.
Answer: mental conditions, behaviors, perceptions, satisfaction, services
received
,◍ How many countries have delegates on the WHO's World Health
Assembly?.
Answer: 193
◍ 3 measures of social well-being.
Answer: socioeconomic status, quality of life, social contacts and social
resources
◍ This branch of the WHO serves as the main policy implementation body:.
Answer: Secretariat
◍ The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting
physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the
sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the
education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene, the
organization of medical and nursing service for the early diagnosis of social
machinery which will ensure to every individual in the community a
standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health.
Answer: Public Health Definition
◍ The two main goals of public health.
Answer: - the practice of disease and promoting good health within groups
of people- research and surveillance to better understand the health issues
facing a group and, in turn, to be able to craft good health policy.
◍ public health and population health differences.
Answer: - public health has historically dealt with factors that impact health
more directly such as clean water and vaccinations- population health seeks
to identify less direct factors (determinants of health) and intervene where
possible such as poverty, social supports, and connectivity
◍ Goals of the population health model.
Answer: - seeks to explain and intervene causes of the systematic
differences in health between different groups- analyzes patterns or
distribution of "health" between groups of people in order to identify and
understand factors leading to different outcomes
, ◍ This branch of the WHO facilitates the work of the World Health Assembly
and advises on technical issues related to health (UN):.
Answer: Exexutive Board
◍ What are the 6 core functions of the WHO?.
Answer: 1. Act as a leader and partner on health issues worldwide (UN)2
Set research priorities and encourage the sharing of health-related
knowledge3. Establish standards of practice and support and monitor their
adoption (Help in individual countries)4. Advance policy options founded
on ethical and evidence-based principles5. Lend technical support to health
initiatives and contribute to capacity building (also provide emergency
aid)6. Monitor health issues around the world and identify patterns and
trends
◍ Name a few things that the WHO coordinates:.
Answer: - population health programs- mass immunization campaigns-
emergency response efforts to natural disasters and disease outbreaks-
provides statistical monitoring of disease prevalence
◍ What is the WHO policymaking process?.
Answer: 1. Proposal submitted2. Preliminary impact analysis by WHO's
director general3. Committee examines proposal and reports at plenary
meetings4. World Health Assembly Votes5. Policy implemented by
Secretariat
◍ Upstream factors of the population health model.
Answer: influence health through a series of pathways that may not be
immediately visible (root causes)
◍ 4 definitions of health policy.
Answer: - policy pertaining to or influencing the attainment of health- the
aggregate of principles, stated or unstated, that characterize the distribution
of resources, services, and political influences that impact the health of the
population- may influence each component in the determinants-of-health
framework directly or indirectly- affects groups or classes of individuals and