Global Health Final Exam questions
with 100% correct answers 2025/2026
What is globalization? - correct answer ✔✔"[a] pattern of transnational economic integration
animated by the ideal of creating self-regulating global markets for goods, services, capital,
technology, and skills"
Week 1 -
What is Global Health definition? - correct answer ✔✔"Global health is 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."
Where have the ideas of global health evolved from? - correct answer ✔✔tropical medicine ->
international health -> global health
Define Equity? - correct answer ✔✔Fairness
Why does global health need nurses? - correct answer ✔✔Nurses carry unique knowledge of
the social determinants of health and
Quote from "Benatar, Daar and Singer (2003) " ? - correct answer ✔✔"It is imperative to move
beyond individually focused biomedical ethical principles to a more comprehensive approach
that focuses on improving health globally: a shift in mindset that requires a realization that
health, human rights, economic opportunities, good governance, peace and development are
all intimately linked within a complex interdependent world" (p. 108)
,What is the declaration of Alma-Ata? in 1978- WHO - correct answer ✔✔"the need for urgent
action by all governments, all health and development workers, and the world community to
protect and promote the health of all the people of the world"
What does the CNA believe about nurses and global health ? - correct answer ✔✔The CNA
believes that nurses and the nursing profession in Canada must contribute to the advancement
of global health and equity
What unique knowledge do nurses bring to improve the health of the globe? - correct answer
✔✔Nurses have cultural awareness and cultural competence and ability to use evidence based
research in practice. Understanding of interrelatedness of social determinants of health.
Ostlin et al quote? - correct answer ✔✔"understanding the social origins of disease—the
''upstream'' influences on (ill) health and its distribution —generally and almost unavoidably
falls outside the biomedical frame of reference" (p. 1)
What was from the Koplan et al. (2009) article? - correct answer ✔✔Emphasizes the mutuality
of a real partnership
A pooling of experience and knowledge
Two way flow between (developed and developing) countries
Uses the resources, knowledge, and experience of diverse societies to address health challenges
throughout the world
Many disciplines: social and behavioural sciences, biomedical and environmental sciences,
economics, history, law and public policy
What does Koplan et al. (2009) recognize as the factors that cause ill health ? - correct answer
✔✔Recognizes that political, social and economic factors are central causes of ill health.
Define global health? - correct answer ✔✔Area of study, research, practice that places a priority
in improving health and achieving equity in health for all.
, How many children are making it past age 5? - correct answer ✔✔5.9 million children under age
five died in 2015, 16 000 every day
How do nurses contribute to "social justice" approach to global health? - correct answer
✔✔social justice. Justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges
within a society.
In order for nurses to contribute to social justice, they are needed to strengthen research on
health equity with a focus on social determinants of health. To do so, a shift needs to occur that
addresses social, political, and economic processes that influence population health.
What country has the highest prevalence of diabetes? - correct answer ✔✔India - population
size can skew data.
Week 2 - correct answer ✔✔
What is the political economy approach to health? - correct answer ✔✔The political economy
approach to health:
the political, social, cultural and economic contexts in which disease and illness arise
examines the ways in which societal structures interact with particular health conditions
views health as a function and reflection of linked determinants that operate at multiple levels:
individual, household, community, workplace, social class, nation and the global political and
economic context.
These determinants are addressed through, for example, public policy aimed at improving
transportation and housing conditions. These efforts include, but are not reduced to, biomedical
technologies and behavior/ lifestyle strategies.
with 100% correct answers 2025/2026
What is globalization? - correct answer ✔✔"[a] pattern of transnational economic integration
animated by the ideal of creating self-regulating global markets for goods, services, capital,
technology, and skills"
Week 1 -
What is Global Health definition? - correct answer ✔✔"Global health is 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."
Where have the ideas of global health evolved from? - correct answer ✔✔tropical medicine ->
international health -> global health
Define Equity? - correct answer ✔✔Fairness
Why does global health need nurses? - correct answer ✔✔Nurses carry unique knowledge of
the social determinants of health and
Quote from "Benatar, Daar and Singer (2003) " ? - correct answer ✔✔"It is imperative to move
beyond individually focused biomedical ethical principles to a more comprehensive approach
that focuses on improving health globally: a shift in mindset that requires a realization that
health, human rights, economic opportunities, good governance, peace and development are
all intimately linked within a complex interdependent world" (p. 108)
,What is the declaration of Alma-Ata? in 1978- WHO - correct answer ✔✔"the need for urgent
action by all governments, all health and development workers, and the world community to
protect and promote the health of all the people of the world"
What does the CNA believe about nurses and global health ? - correct answer ✔✔The CNA
believes that nurses and the nursing profession in Canada must contribute to the advancement
of global health and equity
What unique knowledge do nurses bring to improve the health of the globe? - correct answer
✔✔Nurses have cultural awareness and cultural competence and ability to use evidence based
research in practice. Understanding of interrelatedness of social determinants of health.
Ostlin et al quote? - correct answer ✔✔"understanding the social origins of disease—the
''upstream'' influences on (ill) health and its distribution —generally and almost unavoidably
falls outside the biomedical frame of reference" (p. 1)
What was from the Koplan et al. (2009) article? - correct answer ✔✔Emphasizes the mutuality
of a real partnership
A pooling of experience and knowledge
Two way flow between (developed and developing) countries
Uses the resources, knowledge, and experience of diverse societies to address health challenges
throughout the world
Many disciplines: social and behavioural sciences, biomedical and environmental sciences,
economics, history, law and public policy
What does Koplan et al. (2009) recognize as the factors that cause ill health ? - correct answer
✔✔Recognizes that political, social and economic factors are central causes of ill health.
Define global health? - correct answer ✔✔Area of study, research, practice that places a priority
in improving health and achieving equity in health for all.
, How many children are making it past age 5? - correct answer ✔✔5.9 million children under age
five died in 2015, 16 000 every day
How do nurses contribute to "social justice" approach to global health? - correct answer
✔✔social justice. Justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges
within a society.
In order for nurses to contribute to social justice, they are needed to strengthen research on
health equity with a focus on social determinants of health. To do so, a shift needs to occur that
addresses social, political, and economic processes that influence population health.
What country has the highest prevalence of diabetes? - correct answer ✔✔India - population
size can skew data.
Week 2 - correct answer ✔✔
What is the political economy approach to health? - correct answer ✔✔The political economy
approach to health:
the political, social, cultural and economic contexts in which disease and illness arise
examines the ways in which societal structures interact with particular health conditions
views health as a function and reflection of linked determinants that operate at multiple levels:
individual, household, community, workplace, social class, nation and the global political and
economic context.
These determinants are addressed through, for example, public policy aimed at improving
transportation and housing conditions. These efforts include, but are not reduced to, biomedical
technologies and behavior/ lifestyle strategies.
