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HSC4624 EXAM 1 REVIEW Questions and
Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: What is the definition of tertiary care?, 🗹🗹: Specialized consultative care, usually
on a referral from primary or secondary medical care personnel, by specialists working
in a center that has personnel for special investigation and treatment
Q: Following development, this trend changes from a pattern of high fertility and high
mortality to a pattern of low fertility and low mortality over time, 🗹🗹: Demographic
transition
Q: Despite important progress in improving human health globally, in 2013, 🗹🗹:
A.289,000 women were estimated to have died of maternity-related causes.
B.There were over 6 million under 5 child deaths.
C.Over half a million people died of malaria.
D.All of the options are true. THE CORRECT ANSWER
Q: What is the "single best predictor" of the birth weight of a baby?, 🗹🗹: The level of
educational attainment of the mother
Q: Stewardship is..., 🗹🗹: The wide range of functions carried out by government as
they seek to achieve national health policy objectives.
Q: What did the government want to ensure happened in the Millennium Villages
program?, 🗹🗹: No free handouts
Prevent climate of dependency
Program could be replicated
All of the choices.THE CORRECT ANSWER
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Q: According to The World Health Report 2000, __________ ranked the best in overall
health system performance, while _________ ranked lowest., 🗹🗹: France; Zambia
Q: Children in Thailand rarely die, and when they do, 50% of them die from what?,
🗹🗹: injury
Q: At the core of ideas about health systems in low- and middle-income is the notion of
_________, 🗹🗹: Primary health care
Q: Which of the following is NOT a reason for failure of health as a universal right,
🗹🗹: Integrated community care misses the big picture
Q: The following are differentiation factors between the approaches of Public Health
and Medicine, EXCEPT, 🗹🗹: Concentration
Q: Why is the house call program controversial?, 🗹🗹: poor workers are paid to
deliver care
Q: All of the following are critical global health concepts EXCEPT..., 🗹🗹: The
organization of communities
Q: Which is NOT a goal of health systems?, 🗹🗹: Effective governance
Q: Maternal Mortality Ratio is the number of women who die as a result of pregnancy
and child birth complications per __________ live births in a given year, 🗹🗹: varies
according to local authorities or policies
Q: What are conditional cash transfers (CCTs)?, 🗹🗹: Transfers made from
governments to their citizens
Q: Among the key determinants of health, the following are important INDIVIDUAL
factors, EXCEPT, 🗹🗹: AGE
HSC4624 EXAM 1 REVIEW Questions and
Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: What is the definition of tertiary care?, 🗹🗹: Specialized consultative care, usually
on a referral from primary or secondary medical care personnel, by specialists working
in a center that has personnel for special investigation and treatment
Q: Following development, this trend changes from a pattern of high fertility and high
mortality to a pattern of low fertility and low mortality over time, 🗹🗹: Demographic
transition
Q: Despite important progress in improving human health globally, in 2013, 🗹🗹:
A.289,000 women were estimated to have died of maternity-related causes.
B.There were over 6 million under 5 child deaths.
C.Over half a million people died of malaria.
D.All of the options are true. THE CORRECT ANSWER
Q: What is the "single best predictor" of the birth weight of a baby?, 🗹🗹: The level of
educational attainment of the mother
Q: Stewardship is..., 🗹🗹: The wide range of functions carried out by government as
they seek to achieve national health policy objectives.
Q: What did the government want to ensure happened in the Millennium Villages
program?, 🗹🗹: No free handouts
Prevent climate of dependency
Program could be replicated
All of the choices.THE CORRECT ANSWER
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Q: According to The World Health Report 2000, __________ ranked the best in overall
health system performance, while _________ ranked lowest., 🗹🗹: France; Zambia
Q: Children in Thailand rarely die, and when they do, 50% of them die from what?,
🗹🗹: injury
Q: At the core of ideas about health systems in low- and middle-income is the notion of
_________, 🗹🗹: Primary health care
Q: Which of the following is NOT a reason for failure of health as a universal right,
🗹🗹: Integrated community care misses the big picture
Q: The following are differentiation factors between the approaches of Public Health
and Medicine, EXCEPT, 🗹🗹: Concentration
Q: Why is the house call program controversial?, 🗹🗹: poor workers are paid to
deliver care
Q: All of the following are critical global health concepts EXCEPT..., 🗹🗹: The
organization of communities
Q: Which is NOT a goal of health systems?, 🗹🗹: Effective governance
Q: Maternal Mortality Ratio is the number of women who die as a result of pregnancy
and child birth complications per __________ live births in a given year, 🗹🗹: varies
according to local authorities or policies
Q: What are conditional cash transfers (CCTs)?, 🗹🗹: Transfers made from
governments to their citizens
Q: Among the key determinants of health, the following are important INDIVIDUAL
factors, EXCEPT, 🗹🗹: AGE
