MHA 708 Exam C Questions With
Correct Answers
Which 3 sectors make up the WHO?
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- World Health Assembly
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- Executive Board
| |
- Secretariat
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This branch of the WHO has delegates from all member countries:
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World Health Assembly
| |
How many countries have delegates on the WHO's World Health
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Assembly?
193
This branch of the WHO serves as the main policy implementation body:
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Secretariat
,This branch of the WHO facilitates the work of the World Health
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Assembly and advises on technical issues related to health (UN):
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Exexutive Board |
What are the 6 core functions of the WHO?
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1. Act as a leader and partner on health issues worldwide (UN)
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2 Set research priorities and encourage the sharing of health-related
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knowledge
3. Establish standards of practice and support and monitor their
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adoption (Help in individual countries) | | | |
4. Advance policy options founded on ethical and evidence-based
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principles
5. Lend technical support to health initiatives and contribute to capacity
| | | | | | | | | | |
building (also provide emergency aid)
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6. Monitor health issues around the world and identify patterns and
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trends
Name a few things that the WHO coordinates:
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- population health programs
| | |
,- mass immunization campaigns
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- emergency response efforts to natural disasters and disease outbreaks
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- provides statistical monitoring of disease prevalence
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What is the WHO policymaking process?
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1. Proposal submitted
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2. Preliminary impact analysis by WHO's director general
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3. Committee examines proposal and reports at plenary meetings
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4. World Health Assembly Votes
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5. Policy implemented by Secretariat
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How do the WHO and UN interact?
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The WHO is the directing and coordinating authority on international
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health within the UN. WHO Director-General in meetings of the UN
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Security Council, the General Assembly of the UN, the UN Economic and
| | | | | | | | | | |
|Social Council (ECOSOC) as well as other intergovernmental forums,
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interagency briefings, events and interaction with the UN Press Corps.
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, What are the WHO efforts to eradicate smallpox?
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WHO smallpox eradication campaign was launched in its intensified
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form in 1967, and in four years had wiped out smallpox in Latin America.
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|Four more years toppled the disease's last bastion in Asia. The multi-
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national teams closed in on Somalia, scene of "the last stand".
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Last smallpox outbreak was 14 yrs ago. Could still come back since the
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disease lives in apes | | |
What are the WHO efforts to eradicate polio?
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GPEI - global polio eradication initiative
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Polio is now 90% gone
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What are the WHO efforts to work on cholera?
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Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GFTCC)
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Created in 1992 in the context of a cholera outbreak in Peru.
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Correct Answers
Which 3 sectors make up the WHO?
| | | | | |
- World Health Assembly
| | |
- Executive Board
| |
- Secretariat
|
This branch of the WHO has delegates from all member countries:
| | | | | | | | | |
World Health Assembly
| |
How many countries have delegates on the WHO's World Health
| | | | | | | | | |
Assembly?
193
This branch of the WHO serves as the main policy implementation body:
| | | | | | | | | | |
Secretariat
,This branch of the WHO facilitates the work of the World Health
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Assembly and advises on technical issues related to health (UN):
| | | | | | | | |
Exexutive Board |
What are the 6 core functions of the WHO?
| | | | | | | |
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
Name a few things that the WHO coordinates:
| | | | | | |
- 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?
| | | | |
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
| | | |
How do the WHO and UN interact?
| | | | | |
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.
| | | | | | | | |
, What are the WHO efforts to eradicate smallpox?
| | | | | | |
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 | | |
What are the WHO efforts to eradicate polio?
| | | | | | |
GPEI - global polio eradication initiative
| | | | |
Polio is now 90% gone
| | | |
What are the WHO efforts to work on cholera?
| | | | | | | |
Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GFTCC)
| | | | | |
Created in 1992 in the context of a cholera outbreak in Peru.
| | | | | | | | | | |
