Deck 1: The Principles and Goals of Global Health

Question 1

Which of these is a reason to enhance your knowledge of global health?

A) Communicable diseases do not respect boundaries
B) Many low- and middle-income countries face a set of similar challenges to improving their health system
C) Some health issues are greater than any individual country can address
D) All of these are correct

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The health status of a young child is linked with:

A) Physical growth of the child
B) Performance in school
C) Cognitive development of the child
D) All of these are correct

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Medicine is more focused than public health on:

A) Individual curative care
B) The treatment of illness
C) The well-being of individual patients
D) All of these are correct

Answer 3

D

Question 4

One Health refers to:

A) Public health efforts that cut across national boundaries
B) Public health efforts that focus on the connections between animal and human health
C) Public health efforts that focus on the connections between the health of the environment, animal health, and human health
D) Holistic efforts at promoting better health

Question 5

The best example of a global health issue requiring cooperative action is:

A) A local maternal and child health program
B) The development of new vaccines for TB
C) Health system reform in a specific country
D) The financing of health care in Europe

Question 6

One of the keys to smallpox eradication was:

A) Vaccinating everyone in each affected country
B) Vaccinating only the children in each country
C) Vaccinating in selected areas of countries after cases were identified in those areas
D) All of these are correct

Question 7

The burden of disease is primarily communicable, maternal, neonatal and nutritional in:

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

Question 8

The approach to addressing smallpox was based on:

A) Vaccination
B) Drug treatment
C) Taking drugs for prevention
D) Mass drug administration

Question 9

Improvements in health globally have been:

A) Distributed fairly equally
B) Distributed more to some groups than to others
C) Very minimal
D) Extensive and fairly distributed

Question 10

An example of the recent geographic spread of a communicable disease includes:

A) Smallpox
B) Cervical cancer
C) Chikungunya
D) Polio

Question 11

Which example of a health issue would require the most intersectoral collaboration to address?

A) Reduction of tobacco consumption
B) Childhood vaccination
C) Essential Surgery
D) Improving maternal care

Question 12

The best description below of the focus of public health is:

A) Achieving medical care for all
B) Reducing road traffic injuries
C) Preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health through organized community effort
D) Extending life expectancy

Question 13

Which statement least reflects a global health concern?

A) The application of public health to issues that transcend national boundaries
B) The achievement of greater health equity in an individual country
C) Cooperative efforts needed to solve a critical public health problem affecting many countries
D) Global standard setting on diagnostics and drugs

Question 14

Planetary health refers to:

A) An approach to public health that concerns animal health
B) An approach to public health that focuses on zoonotic disease
C) An approach to public health that focuses on the interconnectedness of human health, animal health, and the environment
D) An approach to public health that focuses on the environment

Question 15

The Sustainable Development Goals

A) Include a range of goals and targets that relate to health
B) Focus on a healthy environment
C) Are all to be achieved by 2020
D) Say little about global health

Question 16

Which of the following is an example of a public health approach?

A) A large-scale program to help a community to stay active
B) A physician counselling an individual patient on the need to exercise
C) A physician encouraging a family to vaccinate their children
D) A community health worker treating individual cases of a disease

Question 17

The only human disease ever eradicated was:

A) Rinderpest
B) Smallpox
C) Guinea worm
D) Hookworm

Question 18

Important progress in health has resulted from:

A) Improvements in hygiene, access to safe water, and access to safe sanitation
B) Improvements in technology, such as the dissemination of childhood vaccines
C) Increases in people's level of education
D) All of these are correct

Question 19

Examples of countries that in the last 50 years achieved substantially better levels of population health than one might have predicted by their income level, include

A) Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands
B) The US
C) Cuba, Costa Rica, and China
D) Liberia and Sierra Leone