Global Health Final Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
1. Early adolescence is defined as: - CORRECT ANSWER Ages 10-14
2. What are common mental health problems among adolescents? - CORRECT ANSWER
Depression, Anxiety and conduct disorders.
3. Case fatality rate is: - CORRECT ANSWER The proportion of people with disease that die
from the disease
4. Reducing the incidence of a disease in a specific area to zero is termed as: - CORRECT ANSWER
Elimination
6. Which measure would have the least impact on decreasing alcohol consumption in a low income
country? - CORRECT ANSWER Education and counseling by healthcare providers
7. What is the theoretical foundation of several injury prevention and control efforts? - CORRECT
ANSWER Haddon's matrix
8. WHO defines an adolescent as a person: - CORRECT ANSWER 10-19 years of age
9. Adolescents and young adults globally are seeing increasing rates of: - CORRECT ANSWER
Obesity
10. To reduce the uptake of tobacco smoking by adolescents, countries should do what? - CORRECT
ANSWER Ban sales to minors, offer tobacco cessation programs, and tax cigarettes and
prohibition advertising of tobacco products
11. Zoonoses refers to: - CORRECT ANSWER The spread of infection from animals to people
, 12. A noncommunicable disease is one that: - CORRECT ANSWER Cannot be spread from
person to person by an infectious agent
13. Body mass index is: - CORRECT ANSWER Weight of a person in kilograms, divided by
the square of the person's height in meters
14. Cardiovascular disease includes: - CORRECT ANSWER Ischemic heart disease and stroke
15. The one injury cause from which females die more than males in low- and lower middle-income
countries is: - CORRECT ANSWER Fire
16. An example of the recent geographic spread of a communicable disease includes: - CORRECT
ANSWER COVID-19
17. The Sustainable Development Goals: - CORRECT ANSWER include a range of goals and
targets that relate to health
18. The only human disease ever eradicated was: - CORRECT ANSWER smallpox
19. Life expectancy at birth is: - CORRECT ANSWER How long people today are expected to
live, given continuation of existing mortality trends
20. The neonatal mortality rate is: - CORRECT ANSWER The number of children under 28
days of age, who die for every 1000 life births
21. Disability refers to: - CORRECT ANSWER temporary or long-term reduction in a person's
ability to function
22. The best definition of a noncommunicable disease is: - CORRECT ANSWER A disease
that is not caused by an infectious agent
23. A DALY measures: - CORRECT ANSWER The sum of years lost due to premature death
and years lived with the disability, calculated on a weighted basis
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
1. Early adolescence is defined as: - CORRECT ANSWER Ages 10-14
2. What are common mental health problems among adolescents? - CORRECT ANSWER
Depression, Anxiety and conduct disorders.
3. Case fatality rate is: - CORRECT ANSWER The proportion of people with disease that die
from the disease
4. Reducing the incidence of a disease in a specific area to zero is termed as: - CORRECT ANSWER
Elimination
6. Which measure would have the least impact on decreasing alcohol consumption in a low income
country? - CORRECT ANSWER Education and counseling by healthcare providers
7. What is the theoretical foundation of several injury prevention and control efforts? - CORRECT
ANSWER Haddon's matrix
8. WHO defines an adolescent as a person: - CORRECT ANSWER 10-19 years of age
9. Adolescents and young adults globally are seeing increasing rates of: - CORRECT ANSWER
Obesity
10. To reduce the uptake of tobacco smoking by adolescents, countries should do what? - CORRECT
ANSWER Ban sales to minors, offer tobacco cessation programs, and tax cigarettes and
prohibition advertising of tobacco products
11. Zoonoses refers to: - CORRECT ANSWER The spread of infection from animals to people
, 12. A noncommunicable disease is one that: - CORRECT ANSWER Cannot be spread from
person to person by an infectious agent
13. Body mass index is: - CORRECT ANSWER Weight of a person in kilograms, divided by
the square of the person's height in meters
14. Cardiovascular disease includes: - CORRECT ANSWER Ischemic heart disease and stroke
15. The one injury cause from which females die more than males in low- and lower middle-income
countries is: - CORRECT ANSWER Fire
16. An example of the recent geographic spread of a communicable disease includes: - CORRECT
ANSWER COVID-19
17. The Sustainable Development Goals: - CORRECT ANSWER include a range of goals and
targets that relate to health
18. The only human disease ever eradicated was: - CORRECT ANSWER smallpox
19. Life expectancy at birth is: - CORRECT ANSWER How long people today are expected to
live, given continuation of existing mortality trends
20. The neonatal mortality rate is: - CORRECT ANSWER The number of children under 28
days of age, who die for every 1000 life births
21. Disability refers to: - CORRECT ANSWER temporary or long-term reduction in a person's
ability to function
22. The best definition of a noncommunicable disease is: - CORRECT ANSWER A disease
that is not caused by an infectious agent
23. A DALY measures: - CORRECT ANSWER The sum of years lost due to premature death
and years lived with the disability, calculated on a weighted basis
