GCH 205 – Global Community Health, Exam 1 Study
Guide
Know the WHO definition of health - ANS ✔Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and
social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
What is public health versus medicine and how do their interventions differ - ANS ✔~public
health
*focuses on populations
*epidemiology, toxicology, occupational health, global health, environmental health, nutrition
~medicine
*focuses on the individual
*cardiology, neurology, obstetrics, pediatrics, infectious disease, oncology, radiology, surgery
What is global health & why is it important? - ANS ✔"...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."
Know the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). - ANS ✔1. eradicate extreme hunger and
poverty
2. achieve universal primary education
3. promote gender equality and empower women
4. reduce child mortality
5. improve mental health
6. combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other disease
, 7. ensure environmental sustainability
8. develop a global partnership for development
Know the difference between morbidity and mortality. - ANS ✔morbidity- sickness or any
departure, subjective or objective, from a psychological or physiological state of well-being
mortality- death
Know the definitions of disability and injury. - ANS ✔disability- temporary or long-term
reduction in a person's capacity to function
injury- include road traffic injuries, falls, self-inflicted injuries, and violence, among other things
Know the difference between communicable and non-communicable diseases. - ANS
✔communicable disease- illnesses caused by a particular infectious agent that spread directly or
indirectly from people to people, animals to people, or people to animals
non communicable disease- illnesses not spread by an infectious agent
Define the term risk factor. - ANS ✔an aspect or personal behavior or life-style, an
environmental exposure, or an inborn or inherited characteristic, that, on the basis of
epidemiological evidence, is known to be associated with health-related conditions considered
important to prevent
*Most important risk factors in low- and middle-income countries are malnutrition, high blood
pressure and high cholesterol, smoking, and unsafe sex
What is maternal health? - ANS ✔Health of a woman while pregnant, during delivery, or within
42 days of delivery
What is family planning? - ANS ✔the practice of controlling the number of children in a family
and the intervals between their births, particularly by means of artificial contraception or
voluntary sterilization.
Guide
Know the WHO definition of health - ANS ✔Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and
social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
What is public health versus medicine and how do their interventions differ - ANS ✔~public
health
*focuses on populations
*epidemiology, toxicology, occupational health, global health, environmental health, nutrition
~medicine
*focuses on the individual
*cardiology, neurology, obstetrics, pediatrics, infectious disease, oncology, radiology, surgery
What is global health & why is it important? - ANS ✔"...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."
Know the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). - ANS ✔1. eradicate extreme hunger and
poverty
2. achieve universal primary education
3. promote gender equality and empower women
4. reduce child mortality
5. improve mental health
6. combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other disease
, 7. ensure environmental sustainability
8. develop a global partnership for development
Know the difference between morbidity and mortality. - ANS ✔morbidity- sickness or any
departure, subjective or objective, from a psychological or physiological state of well-being
mortality- death
Know the definitions of disability and injury. - ANS ✔disability- temporary or long-term
reduction in a person's capacity to function
injury- include road traffic injuries, falls, self-inflicted injuries, and violence, among other things
Know the difference between communicable and non-communicable diseases. - ANS
✔communicable disease- illnesses caused by a particular infectious agent that spread directly or
indirectly from people to people, animals to people, or people to animals
non communicable disease- illnesses not spread by an infectious agent
Define the term risk factor. - ANS ✔an aspect or personal behavior or life-style, an
environmental exposure, or an inborn or inherited characteristic, that, on the basis of
epidemiological evidence, is known to be associated with health-related conditions considered
important to prevent
*Most important risk factors in low- and middle-income countries are malnutrition, high blood
pressure and high cholesterol, smoking, and unsafe sex
What is maternal health? - ANS ✔Health of a woman while pregnant, during delivery, or within
42 days of delivery
What is family planning? - ANS ✔the practice of controlling the number of children in a family
and the intervals between their births, particularly by means of artificial contraception or
voluntary sterilization.
