Global Health Exam 2 Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
What are the three types of actors in health systems? -
correct answer ✅Public, Private, and NGO
What are the functions of a health system? -
correct answer ✅1. Raise money for health services
2. Pay for health services
3. Provide health services
4. Govern and regulate the health system
What are six building blocks of health systems? What does each do
to ensure quality care? -
correct answer ✅1. Financing
2. Information
3. Health workforce
4. Medical products, vaccines, and technologies
5. Service delivery
6. Leadership/governance
Is there an MDG on access to health care? -
correct answer ✅No but it's critical to achieving many MDG's
,Global Health Exam 2 Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
What are 3 limitations of existing health systems in developing
countries? -
correct answer ✅1. Gaps in health outcomes are widening
2. Lack of capacity to deliver care to those most in need
3. They don't use the interventions and technologies that are
available
What are 3 "prototypes" of health systems and what is a country
with each type? -
correct answer ✅National health insurance: Germany
Tax-financed system: United Kingdom
Public-tiered network: India
What are some challenges for health systems? (7) -
correct answer ✅1. Financing health systems
2. Financial protection and universal coverage
3. Human resources
4. Quality of care
5. Demographic and epidemiological canges
6. Access and Equity
7. Stewardship
, Global Health Exam 2 Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Hidden Hunger -
correct answer ✅When an individual suffers from subclinical
nutrient deficiencies (iron, folic acid, vitamin A), but does not have
overt clinical signs of undernutrition.
Food Insecurity -
correct answer ✅When people do not have adequate physical,
social, or economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food
that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active
and healthy life.
Vitamin A deficiencies -
correct answer ✅Proper immune functions and prevention of
xero..., blindness
Vitamin D deficiencies -
correct answer ✅Skeletal disorders such as rickets, emerging
functions in many diseases
Iodine deficiencies -
correct answer ✅Growth and neurological development, goiter
Answers (Grade A+)
What are the three types of actors in health systems? -
correct answer ✅Public, Private, and NGO
What are the functions of a health system? -
correct answer ✅1. Raise money for health services
2. Pay for health services
3. Provide health services
4. Govern and regulate the health system
What are six building blocks of health systems? What does each do
to ensure quality care? -
correct answer ✅1. Financing
2. Information
3. Health workforce
4. Medical products, vaccines, and technologies
5. Service delivery
6. Leadership/governance
Is there an MDG on access to health care? -
correct answer ✅No but it's critical to achieving many MDG's
,Global Health Exam 2 Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
What are 3 limitations of existing health systems in developing
countries? -
correct answer ✅1. Gaps in health outcomes are widening
2. Lack of capacity to deliver care to those most in need
3. They don't use the interventions and technologies that are
available
What are 3 "prototypes" of health systems and what is a country
with each type? -
correct answer ✅National health insurance: Germany
Tax-financed system: United Kingdom
Public-tiered network: India
What are some challenges for health systems? (7) -
correct answer ✅1. Financing health systems
2. Financial protection and universal coverage
3. Human resources
4. Quality of care
5. Demographic and epidemiological canges
6. Access and Equity
7. Stewardship
, Global Health Exam 2 Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Hidden Hunger -
correct answer ✅When an individual suffers from subclinical
nutrient deficiencies (iron, folic acid, vitamin A), but does not have
overt clinical signs of undernutrition.
Food Insecurity -
correct answer ✅When people do not have adequate physical,
social, or economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food
that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active
and healthy life.
Vitamin A deficiencies -
correct answer ✅Proper immune functions and prevention of
xero..., blindness
Vitamin D deficiencies -
correct answer ✅Skeletal disorders such as rickets, emerging
functions in many diseases
Iodine deficiencies -
correct answer ✅Growth and neurological development, goiter
