Deck 2: Health Determinants, Measurements, and the Status of Health Globally

Question 1

What is the best definition of a social determinant of health?

A) The conditions of an individual's work
B) The conditions under which an individual lives
C) The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age
D) The conditions in which a community lives

Answer 1

C

Question 2

A behavior-related determinant of health would be

A) Genetic inheritance
B) Tobacco consumption
C) Exposure to outdoor air pollution
D) Social status

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Socio-economic determinants of health include:

A) Income level
B) Level of education
C) Ethnicity
D) All of these are correct

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Differences in health across social groups often reflect:

A) Social disadvantage
B) Problems of governance
C) Variations in family income
D) All of these are correct

Question 5

The maternal mortality ratio is measured per how many live births:

A) 1,000
B) 10,000
C) 100,000
D) 500,000

Question 6

An infant is:

A) A child under 28 days of age
B) A child over 28 days but less than 1 year of age
C) A child between 28 days and 6 months of age
D) A child under 1 year of age

Question 7

Incidence rate refers to:

A) How many people in a given period die
B) How many people in a given period are disabled
C) How many people get a disease over a certain period, compared to a specified number of people at risk
D) How many people get a disease in a certain time period

Question 8

The best definition of a communicable disease is:

A) A disease that cannot spread from animals to humans
B) A disease caused by an infectious agent that can spread from people to people, people to animals, and animals to people
C) A disease that can spread from humans to humans
D) None of these are correct

Question 9

Which region has the worst health indicators:

A) South Asia
B) The Middle East and North Africa
C) Sub-Saharan Africa
D) Latin America and the Caribbean

Question 10

Which country income group would you expect to have the best health indicators:

A) Low-income
B) Lower middle-income
C) Upper middle-income
D) High-income

Question 11

What is a determinant of health?

A) The range of conditions that determine the health status of an individual
B) The range of personal, social, economic and environmental factors which determine the health status of individuals or populations
C) The personal factors that determine the health status of an individual
D) The personal factors that determine the health status of a community

Question 12

Some inborn determinants of health include:

A) Genetic make-up
B) Age
C) Social status
D) Both genetic make-up and age

Question 13

Environmental determinants of health would include:

A) Access to safe drinking water
B) Tobacco consumption
C) Genetic inheritance
D) Level of education

Question 14

Children are likely to be healthier in a country in which:

A) The government invests modestly in education
B) The government makes education, including for girls, a national priority
C) The government invests in education, but most students are boys
D) The government invests in hospitals in urban areas

Question 15

Life expectancy at birth is:

A) How long a person will live
B) How long the population will live
C) How long people born today are expected to live, given continuation of existing mortality trends
D) How long people born today are expected to live

Question 16

The neonatal mortality rate is:

A) The number of children under age 1 who die in a year
B) The number of children under 28 days of age, who die for every 1,000 live births
C) The number of children under 28 days of age, who die for every 5,000 live births
D) The number of children under 28 days of age, who die for every 10,000 live births

Question 17

Disability refers to:

A) Death
B) Temporary or long-term reduction in a person's ability to function
C) Short illness
D) Illness

Question 18

An example of primary prevention is:

A) Vaccination
B) Treating hypertension with drug therapy
C) Mammography to screen for breast cancer
D) Prostate screening

Question 19

The best definition of a noncommunicable disease is:

A) A disease that is spread by a virus
B) A disease that is not caused by an infectious agent
C) A disease that can spread from person to person
D) A disease that cannot spread from animals to humans

Question 20

Which region has the second worst health indicators:

A) South Asia
B) Sub-Saharan Africa
C) The Middle East and North Africa
D) Latin America and the Caribbean