PHLT 307 GLOBAL HEALTH EXAM 3 QUIZ ?S UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

PHLT 307 GLOBAL HEALTH EXAM 3 QUIZ ?S UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. WHO defines an adolescent as a person:
Answer:
10-19 years of age

Question:
2. Some of the most important changes that occur in 10-14 year old's include:
Answer:
Muscle acquisition Puberty, menstruation Voice deepening

Question:
3. In low-income countries, the ten most important causes of death for adolescents and young adults
include:
Answer:
Road injuries, malaria, TB and HIV

Question:
4. For individuals 15-19 years old and 20-24 years old, we should expect relatively similar importance in
the ranking of the causes of death for:
Answer:
Interpersonal Violence Road injuries TB

Question:
5. The fertility rate among older adolescents is higher in what regions:
Answer:
Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean

Question:
6. Adolescents and young adults globally are seeing increasing rates of:
Answer:
Obesity

Question:
7. Alcohol is an important risk factor for adolescents, except in which regions:
Answer:
South Asia and The Middle East and North Africa

Question:
8. Keeping adolescent females in school longer can:
Answer:
Reduce the risks of HIV Reduce the risks of early marriage Reduce the risks of early pregnancy

, Question:
9. To reduce the uptake of tobacco smoking by adolescents, countries should:
Answer:
Offer tobacco cessation programs Tax cigarettes, prohibit advertising of tobacco products Ban sales to
minors

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10. To best protect the health of adolescents, it is especially important to:
Answer:
Preserve the gains made in the past few decades in child health

Question:
11. The elimination of diseases refers to:
Answer:
The disease no longer being present in a specific place

Question:
12. An example of an emerging infectious disease would be:
Answer:
HIV in the 1980s

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13. Vaccine preventable diseases include:
Answer:
Pertussis, measles, tetanus

Question:
14. Three of the five leading causes of death from communicable diseases globally are:
Answer:
Lower respiratory infections, TB, HIV

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15. How does the burden of communicable diseases vary as country incomes go up:
Answer:
Communicable diseases go down

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16. Some of the pressures leading to the development of resistant strains of bacteria include:
Answer:
Poor patient compliance with taking prescribed drugs Overuse of antibiotics Counterfeit drugs, Poor
prescribing practices

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17. Zoonoses refers to:
Answer:
The spread of infection from animals to people