MHA 708 Exam C Questions with CORRECT Answers
(Grade A+)
Question 1:
Which 3 sectors make up the WHO?
Answer:
- World Health Assembly - Executive Board - Secretariat
Question 2:
This branch of the WHO has delegates from all member countries:
Answer:
World Health Assembly
Question 3:
How many countries have delegates on the WHO's World Health Assembly?
Answer:
193
Question 4:
This branch of the WHO serves as the main policy implementation body:
Answer:
Secretariat
Question 5:
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
,Question 6:
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 knowledge 3. Establish standards of practice and support and monitor their
adoption (Help in individual countries) 4. Advance policy options founded on ethical and
evidence-based principles 5. 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
Question 7:
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
Question 8:
What is the WHO policymaking process?
Answer:
1. Proposal submitted 2. Preliminary impact analysis by WHO's director general 3. Committee
examines proposal and reports at plenary meetings 4. World Health Assembly Votes 5. Policy
implemented by Secretariat
Question 9:
How do the WHO and UN interact?
Answer:
The WHO is the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the UN. WHO
Director-General in meetings of the UN Security Council, the General Assembly of the UN, the UN
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) as well as other intergovernmental forums, interagency
briefings, events and interaction with the UN Press Corps.
, Question 10:
What are the WHO efforts to eradicate smallpox?
Answer:
WHO smallpox eradication campaign was launched in its intensified form in 1967, and in four years
had wiped out smallpox in Latin America. Four more years toppled the disease's last bastion in Asia.
The multi-national teams closed in on Somalia, scene of "the last stand". Last smallpox outbreak was
14 yrs ago. Could still come back since the disease lives in apes
Question 11:
Question not clearly extracted from source.
Answer:
What are the WHO ef- GPEI - global polio eradication initiative forts to eradicate po- Polio is now
90% gone lio?
Question 12:
What are the WHO efforts to work on cholera?
Answer:
Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GFTCC) Created in 1992 in the context of a cholera outbreak
in Peru. Renewed 2011 following the emergence of cholera in Haiti Revitalized 2014 Roadmap to end
Cholera launched 2017
Question 13:
What are the WHO efforts to work on hepatitis?
Answer:
immunization programs
Question 14:
How do the authors review the WHO response to COVID?
Answer:
not provided in source.
Question 15:
The US spends XX% of GDP on Healthcare. This is significantly higher than Canada, which spends
XX% of GDP on HC
Answer:
18% ; 11.5%
(Grade A+)
Question 1:
Which 3 sectors make up the WHO?
Answer:
- World Health Assembly - Executive Board - Secretariat
Question 2:
This branch of the WHO has delegates from all member countries:
Answer:
World Health Assembly
Question 3:
How many countries have delegates on the WHO's World Health Assembly?
Answer:
193
Question 4:
This branch of the WHO serves as the main policy implementation body:
Answer:
Secretariat
Question 5:
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
,Question 6:
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 knowledge 3. Establish standards of practice and support and monitor their
adoption (Help in individual countries) 4. Advance policy options founded on ethical and
evidence-based principles 5. 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
Question 7:
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
Question 8:
What is the WHO policymaking process?
Answer:
1. Proposal submitted 2. Preliminary impact analysis by WHO's director general 3. Committee
examines proposal and reports at plenary meetings 4. World Health Assembly Votes 5. Policy
implemented by Secretariat
Question 9:
How do the WHO and UN interact?
Answer:
The WHO is the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the UN. WHO
Director-General in meetings of the UN Security Council, the General Assembly of the UN, the UN
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) as well as other intergovernmental forums, interagency
briefings, events and interaction with the UN Press Corps.
, Question 10:
What are the WHO efforts to eradicate smallpox?
Answer:
WHO smallpox eradication campaign was launched in its intensified form in 1967, and in four years
had wiped out smallpox in Latin America. Four more years toppled the disease's last bastion in Asia.
The multi-national teams closed in on Somalia, scene of "the last stand". Last smallpox outbreak was
14 yrs ago. Could still come back since the disease lives in apes
Question 11:
Question not clearly extracted from source.
Answer:
What are the WHO ef- GPEI - global polio eradication initiative forts to eradicate po- Polio is now
90% gone lio?
Question 12:
What are the WHO efforts to work on cholera?
Answer:
Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GFTCC) Created in 1992 in the context of a cholera outbreak
in Peru. Renewed 2011 following the emergence of cholera in Haiti Revitalized 2014 Roadmap to end
Cholera launched 2017
Question 13:
What are the WHO efforts to work on hepatitis?
Answer:
immunization programs
Question 14:
How do the authors review the WHO response to COVID?
Answer:
not provided in source.
Question 15:
The US spends XX% of GDP on Healthcare. This is significantly higher than Canada, which spends
XX% of GDP on HC
Answer:
18% ; 11.5%
