GCH 205 EXAM ONE QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS GRADED A+
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Why are social impact assessments important?
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, ~Clinical research protocol must satisfy six conditions:
*Social value
*Scientific validity
*Fair subject selection
*Acceptable risk/benefit ratio
*Informed consent
*Respect for enrolled subjects
~Social assessment - "a process for assessing the social impacts of
planned interventions or events or and for developing strategies for
the ongoing
monitoring and management of those impacts"
*Important to include the affected communities
~Income is associated with better education, better housing, better access to
water, sanitation, hygiene, and health services, and safer work environments
~health and education of parents affects health and education of children
~US Public Health Service conducted a study on the natural history of syphilis in
African American men
~Study went on for 40 years
~Subjects were never given treatment
~Eventually led to regulations for the protection of human research subjects
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Definition
"...an area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on
improving health and achieving equity in health for all people
worldwide.
Global health emphasizes transnational health issues, determinants,
and solutions, involves many disciplines within and beyond the
, health sciences, and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration; and is
a synthesis of population based prevention with individual-level
clinical care."
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•What is a Pluralistic health system What is global health & why is
& give country examples? it important?
•What is culture & why is • What is the importance of
it significant to health? The Nuremberg Code?
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Definition
~Costs of illness can cause individuals and families to lose or
dispose of assets and can cause them to fall into poverty
~Illness often leads to a decrease in earnings
~Indirect costs, such as transportation
~Long-lasting disabilities generally require considerable expenditure
on health services
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•What is the basic primary •What is the epidemiologic and
health care services package? demographic shift?
, • What is the correlation • What is the relationship
between health and poverty? between national income &
health?
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• What is culture & why is it significant to health?
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~Costs of illness can cause individuals and families to lose or dispose of assets
and can cause them to fall into poverty
~Illness often leads to a decrease in earnings
~Indirect costs, such as transportation
~Long-lasting disabilities generally require considerable expenditure on health
services
~Culture - "behavior and beliefs that are learned and shared"
*Culture influences family, social groups, individual growth, communication,
religion, art, politics, the economy
*Culture is related to health behaviors
*Culture is an important determinant of people's perceptions of illness
*Culture affects usage of health services
*Different cultures have different health practices
~health as a personal good
~ownership of facilities; public, private, for profit and not for profit
~employment of providers; largely private
~form of insurance; public insurance and price, for profit and price, non for
profit, with substantial numbers lacking insurance
ANSWERS GRADED A+
1 of 48
Term
Why are social impact assessments important?
Give this one a try later!
, ~Clinical research protocol must satisfy six conditions:
*Social value
*Scientific validity
*Fair subject selection
*Acceptable risk/benefit ratio
*Informed consent
*Respect for enrolled subjects
~Social assessment - "a process for assessing the social impacts of
planned interventions or events or and for developing strategies for
the ongoing
monitoring and management of those impacts"
*Important to include the affected communities
~Income is associated with better education, better housing, better access to
water, sanitation, hygiene, and health services, and safer work environments
~health and education of parents affects health and education of children
~US Public Health Service conducted a study on the natural history of syphilis in
African American men
~Study went on for 40 years
~Subjects were never given treatment
~Eventually led to regulations for the protection of human research subjects
Don't know?
2 of 48
Definition
"...an area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on
improving health and achieving equity in health for all people
worldwide.
Global health emphasizes transnational health issues, determinants,
and solutions, involves many disciplines within and beyond the
, health sciences, and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration; and is
a synthesis of population based prevention with individual-level
clinical care."
Give this one a try later!
•What is a Pluralistic health system What is global health & why is
& give country examples? it important?
•What is culture & why is • What is the importance of
it significant to health? The Nuremberg Code?
Don't know?
3 of 48
Definition
~Costs of illness can cause individuals and families to lose or
dispose of assets and can cause them to fall into poverty
~Illness often leads to a decrease in earnings
~Indirect costs, such as transportation
~Long-lasting disabilities generally require considerable expenditure
on health services
Give this one a try later!
•What is the basic primary •What is the epidemiologic and
health care services package? demographic shift?
, • What is the correlation • What is the relationship
between health and poverty? between national income &
health?
Don't know?
4 of 48
Term
• What is culture & why is it significant to health?
Give this one a try later!
~Costs of illness can cause individuals and families to lose or dispose of assets
and can cause them to fall into poverty
~Illness often leads to a decrease in earnings
~Indirect costs, such as transportation
~Long-lasting disabilities generally require considerable expenditure on health
services
~Culture - "behavior and beliefs that are learned and shared"
*Culture influences family, social groups, individual growth, communication,
religion, art, politics, the economy
*Culture is related to health behaviors
*Culture is an important determinant of people's perceptions of illness
*Culture affects usage of health services
*Different cultures have different health practices
~health as a personal good
~ownership of facilities; public, private, for profit and not for profit
~employment of providers; largely private
~form of insurance; public insurance and price, for profit and price, non for
profit, with substantial numbers lacking insurance
