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Paul Farmer met Father Fritz Lafontant, a future co-founder of Partners in Health, while he was
working in Haiti. What community was Fr. Lafontant working with at that time? correct answers
People living in a rural area, called Cange, who had been displaced by a hydroelectric dam
project
What happened just after the 1978 Alma Ata Conference on primary healthcare? correct answers
All of the above
When Paul Farmer was working with TB patients in Haiti, healthcare professionals trained in the
US often blamed the patients for "not taking their meds," placing the blame on individuals for
getting sick, instead of putting the system (e.g. access to food, clinics) at fault. correct answers
True
How did Farmer and the other doctors working in Cange eventually reach almost 100% cure
rates of TB? correct answers They started the accompaniment, or accompagnateur, system to
support their patients
Which of the following is true about what Partners in Health learned in Peru? correct answers All
of the above
Finding out that MDR-TB drugs were not on patent led Jim Kim and others to advocate for
dropping the drug costs so much that the official WHO policy on treating MDR-TB changed.
correct answers True
What happened when Partners in Health started treating AIDS patients using the accompaniment
system in Haiti? correct answers all of the above
The Global Fund and the U.S.'s PEPFAR increased the amount of money dedicated to
HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria from a couple hundred million dollars per year to only about $2
billion dollars per year. correct answers False
,Which of the following are true about the CHW network that PIH and Dr. Agnes Binagwaho
helped set up in Rwanda? correct answers all of the above
The Rwandan government was committed to strengthening its national health education system
so that its healthcare system could be sustainable, meaning it could be run and funded without
support from foreign countries correct answers True
Based on the chart of the 4 levels of global health competency on page xix of Joia Mukherjee's
Introduction to Global Health Delivery, what levels best summarize what to expect from our
undergraduate global and community health programming at UCSC? correct answers Levels I
and II
Which of the following was NOT one of the ten main statements declared at Alma-Ata? correct
answers Universal Health Coverage is a right extended most efficiently through private insurance
coverage
"Global health in the modern era," argues Joia Mukherjee must focus on what to address "the
collective failure to ensure the availability of high quality health care services"? correct answers
building health systems
Neoliberal theory rests on the idea correct answers economies should be liberalized from
governmental control and democratic programs of redistributive taxation
The World Bank emerged out of meetings and agreements made at Bretton Woods in New
Hampshire towards the end of World War II. At the time, the bank was known by which acronym
used in our textbook? correct answers IBRD
According to Joia Mukherjee the discipline of global health is based on all of the following
EXCEPT: correct answers developing North-South relations in which universities in rich
countries send researchers to poor countries to extract data without creating local health service
system benefits
, In what year, in what city was the commitment made for "Health For All" by what year? correct
answers 1978, Alma Ata, 2000
UNICEF's GOBI program is an example of correct answers SPHC
Post Bamako, which of the following interventions is listed in our textbook as being most
expensive? correct answers 1-year HIV medication
The Bamako Initiative of 1987 promoted the idea of cost-recovery through correct answers user
fees
In her book, Joia Mukherjee puts forward a vision for global health that goes beyond particular
diseases to address the challenges of creating more comprehensive health systems. correct
answers true
Which of the following does Joia Mukherjee incorporate into her book on global health delivery?
correct answers all of the above
What best describes the historical connection between disease-specific global health approaches
and colonial and tropical medicine? correct answers Colonial powers managed health in their
colonies by focusing on how particular diseases in particular places impacted colonial resources
extraction, white administrators and their militaries.
How has globalization impacted the geography of national public health prevention strategies?
correct answers These strategies have shifted in scale to encompass global surveillance and
health regulation
What argument related to political-economy do Jim Kim and others make to in their book Dying
for Growth? correct answers Privileging economic growth systematically fails to lead to new
spending on health systems for the poor.
Paul Farmer met Father Fritz Lafontant, a future co-founder of Partners in Health, while he was
working in Haiti. What community was Fr. Lafontant working with at that time? correct answers
People living in a rural area, called Cange, who had been displaced by a hydroelectric dam
project
What happened just after the 1978 Alma Ata Conference on primary healthcare? correct answers
All of the above
When Paul Farmer was working with TB patients in Haiti, healthcare professionals trained in the
US often blamed the patients for "not taking their meds," placing the blame on individuals for
getting sick, instead of putting the system (e.g. access to food, clinics) at fault. correct answers
True
How did Farmer and the other doctors working in Cange eventually reach almost 100% cure
rates of TB? correct answers They started the accompaniment, or accompagnateur, system to
support their patients
Which of the following is true about what Partners in Health learned in Peru? correct answers All
of the above
Finding out that MDR-TB drugs were not on patent led Jim Kim and others to advocate for
dropping the drug costs so much that the official WHO policy on treating MDR-TB changed.
correct answers True
What happened when Partners in Health started treating AIDS patients using the accompaniment
system in Haiti? correct answers all of the above
The Global Fund and the U.S.'s PEPFAR increased the amount of money dedicated to
HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria from a couple hundred million dollars per year to only about $2
billion dollars per year. correct answers False
,Which of the following are true about the CHW network that PIH and Dr. Agnes Binagwaho
helped set up in Rwanda? correct answers all of the above
The Rwandan government was committed to strengthening its national health education system
so that its healthcare system could be sustainable, meaning it could be run and funded without
support from foreign countries correct answers True
Based on the chart of the 4 levels of global health competency on page xix of Joia Mukherjee's
Introduction to Global Health Delivery, what levels best summarize what to expect from our
undergraduate global and community health programming at UCSC? correct answers Levels I
and II
Which of the following was NOT one of the ten main statements declared at Alma-Ata? correct
answers Universal Health Coverage is a right extended most efficiently through private insurance
coverage
"Global health in the modern era," argues Joia Mukherjee must focus on what to address "the
collective failure to ensure the availability of high quality health care services"? correct answers
building health systems
Neoliberal theory rests on the idea correct answers economies should be liberalized from
governmental control and democratic programs of redistributive taxation
The World Bank emerged out of meetings and agreements made at Bretton Woods in New
Hampshire towards the end of World War II. At the time, the bank was known by which acronym
used in our textbook? correct answers IBRD
According to Joia Mukherjee the discipline of global health is based on all of the following
EXCEPT: correct answers developing North-South relations in which universities in rich
countries send researchers to poor countries to extract data without creating local health service
system benefits
, In what year, in what city was the commitment made for "Health For All" by what year? correct
answers 1978, Alma Ata, 2000
UNICEF's GOBI program is an example of correct answers SPHC
Post Bamako, which of the following interventions is listed in our textbook as being most
expensive? correct answers 1-year HIV medication
The Bamako Initiative of 1987 promoted the idea of cost-recovery through correct answers user
fees
In her book, Joia Mukherjee puts forward a vision for global health that goes beyond particular
diseases to address the challenges of creating more comprehensive health systems. correct
answers true
Which of the following does Joia Mukherjee incorporate into her book on global health delivery?
correct answers all of the above
What best describes the historical connection between disease-specific global health approaches
and colonial and tropical medicine? correct answers Colonial powers managed health in their
colonies by focusing on how particular diseases in particular places impacted colonial resources
extraction, white administrators and their militaries.
How has globalization impacted the geography of national public health prevention strategies?
correct answers These strategies have shifted in scale to encompass global surveillance and
health regulation
What argument related to political-economy do Jim Kim and others make to in their book Dying
for Growth? correct answers Privileging economic growth systematically fails to lead to new
spending on health systems for the poor.
