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1. An example of the recent geographic spread of a com- C) Chikungunya
municable disease includes:
A) Smallpox
B) Cervical cancer
C) Chikungunya
D) Polio
2. Which example of a health issue would require the A) Reduction of tobacco
most intersectoral collaboration to address? consumption
A) Reduction of tobacco consumption
B) Childhood vaccination
C) Essential Surgery
D) Improving maternal care
3. The best description below of the focus of public C) Preventing disease,
health is: prolonging life, and pro-
moting physical health
A) Achieving medical care for all through organized com-
B) Reducing road traffic injuries munity effort
C) Preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting
physical health through organized community effort
D) Extending life expectancy
4. Which statement least reflects a global health con- B) The achievement of
cern? greater health equity in an
individual country
A) The application of public health to issues that tran-
scend national boundaries
B) The achievement of greater health equity in an
individual country
C) Cooperative efforts needed to solve a critical public
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health problem affecting many countries
D) Global standard setting on diagnostics and drugs
5. Planetary health refers to: C) An approach to public
health that focuses on the
A) An approach to public health that concerns animal interconnectedness of hu-
health man health, animal health,
B) An approach to public health that focuses on and the environment
zoonotic disease
C) An approach to public health that focuses on the
interconnectedness of human health, animal health,
and the environment
D) An approach to public health that focuses on the
environment
6. The Sustainable Development Goals A) Include a range of goals
and targets that relate to
A) Include a range of goals and targets that relate to health
health
B) Focus on a healthy environment
C) Are all to be achieved by 2020
D) Say little about global health
7. Which of the following is an example of a public health A) A large-scale program
approach? to help a community to
stay active
A) A large-scale program to help a community to stay
active
B) A physician counselling an individual patient on the
need to exercise
C) A physician encouraging a family to vaccinate their
children
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D) A community health worker treating individual cas-
es of a disease
8. The only human disease ever eradicated was: B) Smallpox
A) Rinderpest
B) Smallpox
C) Guinea worm
D) Hookworm
9. Important progress in health has resulted from: D) All of these are correct
A) Improvements in hygiene, access to safe water, and
access to safe sanitation
B) Improvements in technology, such as the dissemi-
nation of childhood vaccines
C) Increases in people's level of education
D) All of these are correct
10. Examples of countries that in the last 50 years C) Cuba, Costa Rica, and
achieved substantially better levels of population China
health than one might have predicted by their income
level, include:
A) Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands
B) The US
C) Cuba, Costa Rica, and China
D) Liberia and Sierra Leone
11. Which of these is a reason to enhance your knowledge D) All of these are correct
of global health?
A) Communicable diseases do not respect bound-
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aries
B) Many low- and middle-income countries face a set
of similar challenges to improving their health system
C) Some health issues are greater than any individual
country can address
D) All of these are correct
12. The health status of a young child is linked with: D) All of these are correct
A) Physical growth of the child
B) Performance in school
C) Cognitive development of the child
D) All of these are correct
13. WHO defines health as: B) A state of complete
physical, mental and so-
A) A state of well-being cial well-being, not just
B) A state of complete physical, mental and social the absence of infirmity or
well-being, not just the absence of infirmity or dis- disease
ease
C) The absence of infirmity
D) None of these are correct
14. Medicine is more focused than public health on: D) All of these are correct
A) Individual curative care
B) The treatment of illness
C) The well-being of individual patients
D) All of these are correct
15. One Health refers to: B) Public health efforts
that focus on the connec-
A) Public health efforts that cut across national bound-
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1. An example of the recent geographic spread of a com- C) Chikungunya
municable disease includes:
A) Smallpox
B) Cervical cancer
C) Chikungunya
D) Polio
2. Which example of a health issue would require the A) Reduction of tobacco
most intersectoral collaboration to address? consumption
A) Reduction of tobacco consumption
B) Childhood vaccination
C) Essential Surgery
D) Improving maternal care
3. The best description below of the focus of public C) Preventing disease,
health is: prolonging life, and pro-
moting physical health
A) Achieving medical care for all through organized com-
B) Reducing road traffic injuries munity effort
C) Preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting
physical health through organized community effort
D) Extending life expectancy
4. Which statement least reflects a global health con- B) The achievement of
cern? greater health equity in an
individual country
A) The application of public health to issues that tran-
scend national boundaries
B) The achievement of greater health equity in an
individual country
C) Cooperative efforts needed to solve a critical public
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health problem affecting many countries
D) Global standard setting on diagnostics and drugs
5. Planetary health refers to: C) An approach to public
health that focuses on the
A) An approach to public health that concerns animal interconnectedness of hu-
health man health, animal health,
B) An approach to public health that focuses on and the environment
zoonotic disease
C) An approach to public health that focuses on the
interconnectedness of human health, animal health,
and the environment
D) An approach to public health that focuses on the
environment
6. The Sustainable Development Goals A) Include a range of goals
and targets that relate to
A) Include a range of goals and targets that relate to health
health
B) Focus on a healthy environment
C) Are all to be achieved by 2020
D) Say little about global health
7. Which of the following is an example of a public health A) A large-scale program
approach? to help a community to
stay active
A) A large-scale program to help a community to stay
active
B) A physician counselling an individual patient on the
need to exercise
C) A physician encouraging a family to vaccinate their
children
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D) A community health worker treating individual cas-
es of a disease
8. The only human disease ever eradicated was: B) Smallpox
A) Rinderpest
B) Smallpox
C) Guinea worm
D) Hookworm
9. Important progress in health has resulted from: D) All of these are correct
A) Improvements in hygiene, access to safe water, and
access to safe sanitation
B) Improvements in technology, such as the dissemi-
nation of childhood vaccines
C) Increases in people's level of education
D) All of these are correct
10. Examples of countries that in the last 50 years C) Cuba, Costa Rica, and
achieved substantially better levels of population China
health than one might have predicted by their income
level, include:
A) Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands
B) The US
C) Cuba, Costa Rica, and China
D) Liberia and Sierra Leone
11. Which of these is a reason to enhance your knowledge D) All of these are correct
of global health?
A) Communicable diseases do not respect bound-
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aries
B) Many low- and middle-income countries face a set
of similar challenges to improving their health system
C) Some health issues are greater than any individual
country can address
D) All of these are correct
12. The health status of a young child is linked with: D) All of these are correct
A) Physical growth of the child
B) Performance in school
C) Cognitive development of the child
D) All of these are correct
13. WHO defines health as: B) A state of complete
physical, mental and so-
A) A state of well-being cial well-being, not just
B) A state of complete physical, mental and social the absence of infirmity or
well-being, not just the absence of infirmity or dis- disease
ease
C) The absence of infirmity
D) None of these are correct
14. Medicine is more focused than public health on: D) All of these are correct
A) Individual curative care
B) The treatment of illness
C) The well-being of individual patients
D) All of these are correct
15. One Health refers to: B) Public health efforts
that focus on the connec-
A) Public health efforts that cut across national bound-
