HLTH 3115 WEEK 4 MIDTERM EXAM ACTUAL 2024 SPRING QUATER COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A+ GRADED

Many developed countries are beginning to struggle with issues related to , which include increasing numbers of elderly and not enough younger people to replace them in the work force. Selected Answer: low birth rates and low death rates Answers: stable birth and death rates Answer Feedback: Low birth rates and low death rates high birth rates and low death rates Correct. Many developed countries are beginning to struggle with issues related to low birth rates and low death rates, which include increasing numbers of elderly and not enough younger people to replace them in the work force. What do recovery rates for chagas disease and leishmaniasis depend upon? Selected Answer: how early it is detected Answers: Answer Feedback: how early it is detected current preventative technology access to vaccines age of the infected Correct. How early an infection of chagas disease or leishmaniasis is detected will affect the recovery rate. The laws, regulations, and priorities that govern your community or state and how these components influence the health of individual citizens are known as which type of health determinant? Selected Answer: Policymaking Answers: Health services Answer Feedback: Policymaking Biology and genetics Individual behavior Correct. The laws, regulations, and priorities that govern your community or state and how these components influence the health of individual citizens are known as policymaking determinants of health. Which MDG addresses waterborne diseases? Selected Answer: MDG 7 Answers: MDG 7 MDG 2 MDG 1 MDG 8 Answer Feedback: Correct. MDG 7 focuses on environmental sustainability, which directly impacts waterborne diseases. According to MDG 7, how can participating nations of the UN combat global climate change? Selected Answer: reduce carbon levels and deforestation Answers: ensure safe housing reduce population in slum areas provide water and sanitation Answer Feedback: reduce carbon levels and deforestation Correct. By reducing carbon levels and deforestation, participating nations can combat climate change. When does population growth occur? Selected Answer: When death rates decline before birth rates decline Answers: Answer Feedback: When death rates decline before birth rates decline When birth rates and death rates do not change When birth rates and death rates decline simultaneously When birth rates decline before death rates decline Correct. Population growth occurs when death rates decline before birth rates decline Which of the following measures how many births have occurred in a year per 1,000 people in a population? Selected Answer: Crude birth rate Answers: J-Curve Demography Answer Feedback: Crude birth rate Total fertility rate Correct. The crude birth rate measures how many births have occurred in a year per 1,000 people in a population. Why don't the same control methods work for all types of vectors? Selected Answer: differing feeding patterns Answers: Answer Feedback: differing feeding patterns human movement unintended consequences varying disease treatments Correct. Since vectors vary widely in many ways including feeding patterns, tailor-made control measures are needed for various vectors. In highly populated urban areas in , many children suffer from asthma and respiratory illness to a much greater degree than most anywhere else in the world as the result of air pollution due to industrialization and dense populations. Selected Answer: China Answers: Bolivia Afghanistan Answer Feedback: China Correct. In highly populated urban areas in China, many children suffer from asthma and respiratory illness to a much greater degree than most anywhere else in the world as the result of air pollution due to industrialization and dense populations. The design and implementation of must factor in local cultural belief systems and practices. Selected health interventions Answer: Answers: human ecologies health equities HRBAs Answer Feedback: health interventions Correct. Health care providers need to keep local cultural belief systems and practices in mind when designing health interventions. Which of the following diseases was spread through the movement of goods and people across borders from Asia into Europe and on to the Americas during the nineteenth century? Selected Answer: Cholera Answers: Yellow Fever Black Death Answer Feedback: Cholera Leprosy Correct. Cholera was spread through the movement of goods and people across borders from Asia into Europe and on to the Americas during the nineteenth century. In addition to political stability, the ability to is important in the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. Selected Answer: Impart new cultural beliefs Answers: Answer Feedback: Implement public policy Communicate political philosophies Impart new cultural beliefs Incorrect. Imparting new cultural beliefs is not important in the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. The parasitic disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes and is particularly prevalent in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa is called: Selected Answer: Malaria Answers: Typhoid Schistosomiasis Dengue Answer Feedback: Malaria Correct. Malaria is a parasitic disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes and is particularly prevalent in Southeast Asia and sub- Saharan Africa. The three communicable diseases that are the leading causes of death globally are HIV/AIDS, malaria, and . Selected Answer: Tuberculosis Answers: Diabetes Asthma Answer Feedback: Tuberculosis Heart disease Correct. The three communicable diseases that are major killers as well as sources of illness and poverty in developing regions, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, are HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis Which of the following calculations include deaths from specific causes in the numerator and the number of people at risk for dying from that cause in the denominator? Selected Answer: Cause-specific mortality Answers: Incidence