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Global Public Health Exam 1 Questions with 100% VERIFIED
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• Know the definitions of public health, global public health
Public health – focuses on prevention, populations, and multiple
determinants of health, interdisciplinary.
** Public health focuses on the health of populations, while
medicine focuses on the health of individuals.
Global public health – no one definition, not necessarily
different from public health, focuses on transnational issues,
determinants and solutions, interdisciplinary, population-based
prevention and individual clinical care.
Define a biosocial approach to health problems and
interventions to health problems
-Biosocial Interactions: “The intertwining reality of biological
and social factors in health. Biological processes and social
processes affect each other and thereby influence health and
disease.”
-A biosocial approach to public health allows for a focus on
interactions rather than relying solely on deterministic biological
or social explanations
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- Interventions from a biosocial perspective: interventions that
address biological determinants PLUS interventions addressing
social causes.
• If given an example of a health problem or an intervention, be
able to determine if it is using a biosocial approach or not
Malaria – biological approach: defines problem only about the
mosquito, the parasite and the biological process resulting in
sickness; defines solution often as technical fixes (insecticides,
medications), social approach: defined problem as what are the
irrigation/agricultural patterns that allow for sitting water?
Why have populations migrated to malarial zones? Defines
solution as looking at how to change irrigation practices,
understanding patterns of migration, thinks about social
determinants of technical fixes (what limits individuals from
using bed nets or medications?)
Know the six categories of the multiple determinants of health
as stated in healthy people 2020
Behaviors
Biology and genetics
Health services
Social environmental factors
Physical environmental factors
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Policies (health or otherwise)
What are the "resocializing disciplines" and what do they offer
to the study of global public health? What disciplines are not
included among that list? [HINT: "resocializing discipline" is
referred to several times throughout the preface and
introduction]
Resocialzing disciplines-anthropology, sociology, history,
political economy. Combining anthropology, sociology, history,
political economy, and other resocializing disciplines with
epidemiology, demography, clinical practice, molecular biology,
and economics. There is a lot of public health research related
to biology and medicine, however these disciplines are doing
research as well. The approach hinges on social theory and aims
to interrogate claims of causality widely stated in the literature
on global health. Biosocial approach is necessary to examine
global public health.
Articulate why GNP and GDP are not sufficient for examining
health and income inequalities. What is obscured by these
measures?
They obscure local inequities, such as those seen within a
nation, state, district, city or other local policy. “But national
measures of wealth such as GDP and GNP (gross national
product) are well worth pulling apart. “Domestic” and
“national” data often (perhaps always) obscure local inequities,
Global Public Health Exam 1 Questions with 100% VERIFIED
Answers UPDATED!!!
• Know the definitions of public health, global public health
Public health – focuses on prevention, populations, and multiple
determinants of health, interdisciplinary.
** Public health focuses on the health of populations, while
medicine focuses on the health of individuals.
Global public health – no one definition, not necessarily
different from public health, focuses on transnational issues,
determinants and solutions, interdisciplinary, population-based
prevention and individual clinical care.
Define a biosocial approach to health problems and
interventions to health problems
-Biosocial Interactions: “The intertwining reality of biological
and social factors in health. Biological processes and social
processes affect each other and thereby influence health and
disease.”
-A biosocial approach to public health allows for a focus on
interactions rather than relying solely on deterministic biological
or social explanations
,2|Page
- Interventions from a biosocial perspective: interventions that
address biological determinants PLUS interventions addressing
social causes.
• If given an example of a health problem or an intervention, be
able to determine if it is using a biosocial approach or not
Malaria – biological approach: defines problem only about the
mosquito, the parasite and the biological process resulting in
sickness; defines solution often as technical fixes (insecticides,
medications), social approach: defined problem as what are the
irrigation/agricultural patterns that allow for sitting water?
Why have populations migrated to malarial zones? Defines
solution as looking at how to change irrigation practices,
understanding patterns of migration, thinks about social
determinants of technical fixes (what limits individuals from
using bed nets or medications?)
Know the six categories of the multiple determinants of health
as stated in healthy people 2020
Behaviors
Biology and genetics
Health services
Social environmental factors
Physical environmental factors
, 3|Page
Policies (health or otherwise)
What are the "resocializing disciplines" and what do they offer
to the study of global public health? What disciplines are not
included among that list? [HINT: "resocializing discipline" is
referred to several times throughout the preface and
introduction]
Resocialzing disciplines-anthropology, sociology, history,
political economy. Combining anthropology, sociology, history,
political economy, and other resocializing disciplines with
epidemiology, demography, clinical practice, molecular biology,
and economics. There is a lot of public health research related
to biology and medicine, however these disciplines are doing
research as well. The approach hinges on social theory and aims
to interrogate claims of causality widely stated in the literature
on global health. Biosocial approach is necessary to examine
global public health.
Articulate why GNP and GDP are not sufficient for examining
health and income inequalities. What is obscured by these
measures?
They obscure local inequities, such as those seen within a
nation, state, district, city or other local policy. “But national
measures of wealth such as GDP and GNP (gross national
product) are well worth pulling apart. “Domestic” and
“national” data often (perhaps always) obscure local inequities,
