GCH 205 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS 2025
GRADED A+
✔✔What are the links between health and education - ✔✔- Intergenerational links:
health and education of parents affects health and education of children
- Malnutrition and disease affect cognitive development and school performance of
children
- Education contributes to disease prevention and management
✔✔Six leading causes of death from selected communicable diseases: - ✔✔1. Lower
Respiratory Conditions
2. HIV/AIDS
3. Diarrheal Diseases
4. Tuberculosis
5. Malaria
6. Measles
✔✔What is the maternal mortality ratio & in which region is it highest? - ✔✔800 deaths
per 100,000 births Sub-Saharan Africa is the highest
✔✔What is the significance of malaria, TB & HIV/AIDS in global health? - ✔✔- Leading
causes of death in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Infectious diseases that have spread globally
✔✔Region of world with highest risk of neonatal death - ✔✔Sub-Saharan Africa
✔✔Region of world with highest mortality rates from HIV/AIDS - ✔✔Sub-Saharan Africa
✔✔Leading causes of death in low-middle income countries (Children under 5) - ✔✔1.
Pneumonia, or other acute respiratory infections
2. Preterm birth complications
3. Malaria
4. Diarrheal Disease
5. Sepsis and other infections
✔✔Leading causes of death in low-middle income countries (Ages 5-11) - ✔✔1.
Diarrheal Disease
2. HIV/AIDS
3. Road Injury
4. Malaria
5. Lower respiratory infection
✔✔Leading causes of death in low-middle income countries (Ages 15-49) - ✔✔1.
HIV/AIDS
2. Road Injury
, 3. Tuberculosis
4. Self-inflicted injuries
5. Ischemic heart disease
✔✔Leading causes of mortality in adolescents - ✔✔- Road injury
- HIV/AIDS
- Self-harm
- Interpersonal violence
- Maternal conditions
✔✔Direct causes of maternal mortality - ✔✔- Hemorrhage (uncontrolled bleeding)
- Sepsis (infection)
- Hypertensive Disorders
- Prolonged or Obstructed Labor
- Unsafe Abortion
✔✔Region of world with highest rates of maternal mortality - ✔✔Sub-Saharan Africa
✔✔What unintentional injuries cause most deaths? - ✔✔Road injury
Poisonings
Falls
Fires
Drowning
✔✔Haddon's Matrix - ✔✔- Theoretical foundation of prevention and control efforts
- Demonstrates interaction of environment, vector, and host
- Prevention measures focus on education, enforcement, and engineering efforts within
this context
✔✔Haddon's Matrix Example: Road Traffic Injuries - ✔✔Environment: Roadway - Make
roads safer by improving high-risk intersections and routes, improving medians, &
enhancing lighting
Vector: Driver - Make safer vehicles by engineering safety features into them
Host: Human driver and behavior - Enforce speed limits and use of helmets
✔✔Leading cause of death children and region - ✔✔Infant <1 - SSAfrica
Neonate <28 days - SSAfrica: sepsis/asphyxia
Under 5 <5 yrs - SSAfrica: pneumonia/diarrhea/malaria
Leading causes in 0-14 yrs:
Perinatal (childbirths)
Pneumonia
Diarrhea
GRADED A+
✔✔What are the links between health and education - ✔✔- Intergenerational links:
health and education of parents affects health and education of children
- Malnutrition and disease affect cognitive development and school performance of
children
- Education contributes to disease prevention and management
✔✔Six leading causes of death from selected communicable diseases: - ✔✔1. Lower
Respiratory Conditions
2. HIV/AIDS
3. Diarrheal Diseases
4. Tuberculosis
5. Malaria
6. Measles
✔✔What is the maternal mortality ratio & in which region is it highest? - ✔✔800 deaths
per 100,000 births Sub-Saharan Africa is the highest
✔✔What is the significance of malaria, TB & HIV/AIDS in global health? - ✔✔- Leading
causes of death in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Infectious diseases that have spread globally
✔✔Region of world with highest risk of neonatal death - ✔✔Sub-Saharan Africa
✔✔Region of world with highest mortality rates from HIV/AIDS - ✔✔Sub-Saharan Africa
✔✔Leading causes of death in low-middle income countries (Children under 5) - ✔✔1.
Pneumonia, or other acute respiratory infections
2. Preterm birth complications
3. Malaria
4. Diarrheal Disease
5. Sepsis and other infections
✔✔Leading causes of death in low-middle income countries (Ages 5-11) - ✔✔1.
Diarrheal Disease
2. HIV/AIDS
3. Road Injury
4. Malaria
5. Lower respiratory infection
✔✔Leading causes of death in low-middle income countries (Ages 15-49) - ✔✔1.
HIV/AIDS
2. Road Injury
, 3. Tuberculosis
4. Self-inflicted injuries
5. Ischemic heart disease
✔✔Leading causes of mortality in adolescents - ✔✔- Road injury
- HIV/AIDS
- Self-harm
- Interpersonal violence
- Maternal conditions
✔✔Direct causes of maternal mortality - ✔✔- Hemorrhage (uncontrolled bleeding)
- Sepsis (infection)
- Hypertensive Disorders
- Prolonged or Obstructed Labor
- Unsafe Abortion
✔✔Region of world with highest rates of maternal mortality - ✔✔Sub-Saharan Africa
✔✔What unintentional injuries cause most deaths? - ✔✔Road injury
Poisonings
Falls
Fires
Drowning
✔✔Haddon's Matrix - ✔✔- Theoretical foundation of prevention and control efforts
- Demonstrates interaction of environment, vector, and host
- Prevention measures focus on education, enforcement, and engineering efforts within
this context
✔✔Haddon's Matrix Example: Road Traffic Injuries - ✔✔Environment: Roadway - Make
roads safer by improving high-risk intersections and routes, improving medians, &
enhancing lighting
Vector: Driver - Make safer vehicles by engineering safety features into them
Host: Human driver and behavior - Enforce speed limits and use of helmets
✔✔Leading cause of death children and region - ✔✔Infant <1 - SSAfrica
Neonate <28 days - SSAfrica: sepsis/asphyxia
Under 5 <5 yrs - SSAfrica: pneumonia/diarrhea/malaria
Leading causes in 0-14 yrs:
Perinatal (childbirths)
Pneumonia
Diarrhea
