Question 1

Measurements of the state of global health outcomes reveal systematic equalities around the world.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

When global health specialists are faced with the consequences of armed conflicts and civil wars, they often refer to these situations in terms of ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  global health security 
B)  complex emergencies 
C)  humanitarian biomedicine 
D)  biological threats

Question 3

When global health specialists are faced with the prospects of highly communicable and dangerous diseases like Ebola and SARS and must develop plans for prevention and treatment of outbreaks, they often refer to these situations in terms of ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  global health security 
B)  complex emergencies 
C)  humanitarian biomedicine 
D)  biological threats

Question 4

Private medicine indicates, or refers to, a wide range of activities ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  involving treatments and cures for health conditions and issues 
B)  that are community or population-based in some fashion 
C)  individuals and their ability to procure care 
D)  the promotion of health for all people around the world

Question 5

In what ways do major global forces such as governance, markets, ICT, and shifting centers of power affect the field of global health? How will--or might--these relationships develop in the future?

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

Illnesses that--in some cases--are not preventable or--in some cases--are not curable are generally referred to as ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  infectious diseases 
B)  communicable diseases 
C)  chronic diseases 
D)  contagious diseases

Question 7

Work between NGOs and governments in LDCs to ensure the availability of clean, untainted water demonstrates one of the ways in which the global health field intersects with issues involving ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  civil society 
B)  culture 
C)  the environment 
D)  civil war and conflict

Question 8

The principal organization that monitors the HIV and AIDS pandemic around the world is known as ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  UNAIDS 
B)  WHO 
C)  USAID 
D)  UNDP

Question 9

The broad conception of the relationships between education, local disease control, expanded immunization, maternal and child health, essential drugs, nutrition and food supply, treatment of disease and injury, sanitation and safe water supply is referred to as ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  ELEMENTS 
B)  PEPFAR 
C)  the Alma Ata Declaration 
D)  humanitarian biomedicine

Question 10

A wide variety of factors produce and diffuse information or misinformation, shape bias, develop and support health-promoting or -degrading environments, and provide normative pressures that can affect the promotion and provision of health care. This demonstrates one of the ways in which the global health field intersects with issues involving ______.

Accepted Answer