QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Health - CORRECT ANSWER A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and
not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging
life, and promoting physical health and mental health and efficiency through organized community
efforts toward a sanitary environment
Health, Public Health, and global health ex. - CORRECT ANSWER -emerging and reemerging
infectious diseases
-antimicrobial resistance
-eradication of polio
-TB
-Malaria
-HIV
-The increasing cases of diabetes and heart disease globally
Low-income - CORRECT ANSWER $1,035 or less
Lower middle-income - CORRECT ANSWER $1,036 to $4,085
Upper middle-income: - CORRECT ANSWER $4,086 to $12,615
High-income: - CORRECT ANSWER $12,616 or above
Millennium Development Goals - CORRECT ANSWER -Formulated in 2000
-8 MDGs and 15 core targets
-Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be the new set of development goals
, MDG's (8) - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty
2. Achieve Universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development
Inequities - CORRECT ANSWER lack of fairness or justice
Why study global health? - CORRECT ANSWER world is now a socio-economic
interconnected web
Global security and freedom.. - CORRECT ANSWER is connected to global health
New challenges: - CORRECT ANSWER emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and
non-communicable diseases
require... - CORRECT ANSWER large scale COOPERATIVE initiatives
Wellbeing and not mere absence of disease
Dimensions of: - CORRECT ANSWER Physical, mental, social
population vs individual - CORRECT ANSWER public health focuses more on pop while
medicine focuses more on individual.
Global heath - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Health problems, issues, and concerns that transcend
national boundaries and may best be addresses by cooperative actions