WGU E224 GLOBAL AND POPULATION HEALTH
EXAMPREP QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS
◉ How do the millennium goals relate to global health.
Answer: All related either directly or indirectly to health
◉ Discuss the global effort to eradicate smallpox.
Answer: - Vaccinate the family members of those who had been
infected
- Visited the entire continent of India to search for cases
◉ Determinants of Health.
Answer: the range of personal, social, economic, and environmental
factors which determine the health status of individuals or
populations
◉ List important health indicators.
Answer: - Infancy mortality rate
- Life expectancy at birth
- Maternal mortality ratio
- Neonatal morality rate
, - Under 5 mortality rate
◉ Health Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE).
Answer: •Summarizes expected number of years to be lived in what
might be termed the equivalent of good health
◉ Disability adjusted life years.
Answer: The sum of years lost due to premature death (YLLs) and
years lived with disability (YLDs). DALYs are also defined as years of
healthy life lost
◉ Burden of disease.
Answer: • People in much of the world are living longer than before
and dying at lower rates than earlier. As people live longer, there is
an increase in the years people live with disability
◉ Demographic transitions.
Answer: The shift from a pattern of high fertility and high morality
too low fertility and lower morality, with population growth in
between.
◉ Epidemiologic Transition.
Answer: The process of change in the distinctive causes of death in
each stage of the demographic transition
EXAMPREP QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS
◉ How do the millennium goals relate to global health.
Answer: All related either directly or indirectly to health
◉ Discuss the global effort to eradicate smallpox.
Answer: - Vaccinate the family members of those who had been
infected
- Visited the entire continent of India to search for cases
◉ Determinants of Health.
Answer: the range of personal, social, economic, and environmental
factors which determine the health status of individuals or
populations
◉ List important health indicators.
Answer: - Infancy mortality rate
- Life expectancy at birth
- Maternal mortality ratio
- Neonatal morality rate
, - Under 5 mortality rate
◉ Health Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE).
Answer: •Summarizes expected number of years to be lived in what
might be termed the equivalent of good health
◉ Disability adjusted life years.
Answer: The sum of years lost due to premature death (YLLs) and
years lived with disability (YLDs). DALYs are also defined as years of
healthy life lost
◉ Burden of disease.
Answer: • People in much of the world are living longer than before
and dying at lower rates than earlier. As people live longer, there is
an increase in the years people live with disability
◉ Demographic transitions.
Answer: The shift from a pattern of high fertility and high morality
too low fertility and lower morality, with population growth in
between.
◉ Epidemiologic Transition.
Answer: The process of change in the distinctive causes of death in
each stage of the demographic transition
