MIC 130 CORE MAIN EXAMINATION SET
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What was the relevance of South Africa vs Big Pharma in 1997? - ✔✔South Africa
passed law to import generic ARVs
Challenged by drug companies
Companies backed down and
✔✔What is Access to Medicine Index? - ✔✔-proveds insight into pharmaceutical
companies actions and policies
-advance access to healthcare in developing countries
✔✔What are some of the new initiatives to combat neglected tropical diseases? -
✔✔Pricing strategies - two tier pricing
-Developed - full price
-Developing - HIV & TB, price is cut more than half
Sharing library compounds/Licensing -
-EliLilly, Merk, Pfizer
-use it for new identification of infectious diseases
Drug donation programs - Bayer - gives vaccine doses for polio
Merk - help with River Blindness by giving drugs
, ✔✔Define Government, Politics, and Policy - ✔✔Government - body within any
organization that has the authority to make, and the power to enforce, laws, regulations,
or rules.
Politics - the process by which groups of people make decisions
Policy - a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s)
✔✔China did not admit SARS initially. Why? Consequences? - ✔✔Why?
-hurt the economy
-appear weak
-not an open country (communist)
What were consequences?
-public health in the dark
-citizens were unaware, putting them at risk
-citizens who were infected threatened with imprisonment or death
✔✔Government behavior plays a significance role in health outcomes, so behavior is
related to what? - ✔✔-accountability
-stability
-rule of law
-often seen as being outside the realm of health
✔✔What does Adam Smith say about the role of government? - ✔✔1. Provide for
defense
2. Dispense justice (rules, laws, regulations)
3. Promote public works (infrastructure)
✔✔What are direct and indirect ways the U. S. government protects the health of its
citizens? - ✔✔Direct - health care (ACA), FDA, CDC, Public Health, Big Infrastructure
projects, Medicare & Medicaid
Indirect - EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), Anti-poverty, welfare, food stamps,
Women's food supply, unemployment insurance, FEMA
- are all reasons why health is a political issue
✔✔What are some of the government related controversies including who was involved
and what infectious disease were they targeting? - ✔✔2008-2009
President Mugabe (wasn't clean election)
Cholera breakout
Didn't report this and it spread for months
Didn't get recognized till it crossed the boarder
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What was the relevance of South Africa vs Big Pharma in 1997? - ✔✔South Africa
passed law to import generic ARVs
Challenged by drug companies
Companies backed down and
✔✔What is Access to Medicine Index? - ✔✔-proveds insight into pharmaceutical
companies actions and policies
-advance access to healthcare in developing countries
✔✔What are some of the new initiatives to combat neglected tropical diseases? -
✔✔Pricing strategies - two tier pricing
-Developed - full price
-Developing - HIV & TB, price is cut more than half
Sharing library compounds/Licensing -
-EliLilly, Merk, Pfizer
-use it for new identification of infectious diseases
Drug donation programs - Bayer - gives vaccine doses for polio
Merk - help with River Blindness by giving drugs
, ✔✔Define Government, Politics, and Policy - ✔✔Government - body within any
organization that has the authority to make, and the power to enforce, laws, regulations,
or rules.
Politics - the process by which groups of people make decisions
Policy - a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s)
✔✔China did not admit SARS initially. Why? Consequences? - ✔✔Why?
-hurt the economy
-appear weak
-not an open country (communist)
What were consequences?
-public health in the dark
-citizens were unaware, putting them at risk
-citizens who were infected threatened with imprisonment or death
✔✔Government behavior plays a significance role in health outcomes, so behavior is
related to what? - ✔✔-accountability
-stability
-rule of law
-often seen as being outside the realm of health
✔✔What does Adam Smith say about the role of government? - ✔✔1. Provide for
defense
2. Dispense justice (rules, laws, regulations)
3. Promote public works (infrastructure)
✔✔What are direct and indirect ways the U. S. government protects the health of its
citizens? - ✔✔Direct - health care (ACA), FDA, CDC, Public Health, Big Infrastructure
projects, Medicare & Medicaid
Indirect - EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), Anti-poverty, welfare, food stamps,
Women's food supply, unemployment insurance, FEMA
- are all reasons why health is a political issue
✔✔What are some of the government related controversies including who was involved
and what infectious disease were they targeting? - ✔✔2008-2009
President Mugabe (wasn't clean election)
Cholera breakout
Didn't report this and it spread for months
Didn't get recognized till it crossed the boarder
