Global Health Midterm Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
The World Health Organization's definition of "health" includes all
of the following kinds of wellbeing except which one? Select only
one answer.
-Physical
-Social
-Spiritual
-Mental -
correct answer ✅Spiritual
Global health epidemiologists assert that we are now in a period
known as the "third epidemiological transition." This period is
characterized by:
- Low birth rates and low death rates due to the innovation of
antibiotics and vaccines to reduce infectious disease
-Increasing birth rates and increasing death rates due to the rapid
spread of COVID-19
,Global Health Midterm Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
-Increasing birth rates and high death rates due to the pandemic of
chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease
-Low birth rates and increasing death rates due to the dual burden
of chronic diseases and new and emerging infectious diseases -
correct answer ✅Low birth rates and increasing death rates due to
the dual burden of chronic diseases and new and emerging
infectious diseases
In global health, John Snow is best known for:
- developing the first epidemiological map and intervention in
Europe
- harboring the secret identity of Aegon Targaryen, leading him to
commit unknowing incest with his half-sister
-serving as the head of the League of Nations Health Organization,
the precursor to the World Health Organization
-almost entirely eradicating yellow fever during the construction of
the Panama Canal -
, Global Health Midterm Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
correct answer ✅developing the first epidemiological map and
intervention in Europe
Which of the following statements is true of colonial medicine,
according to our class lectures?
- It was largely motivated by an altruistic concern for the welfare of
colonized peoples.
- Interventions designed in one place were often quite effective
when exported to other places.
-Interventions were often effective but depended on the ability of
public health officials to act unilaterally, often by force.
-Political and economic factors were only secondary motivations for
colonial medicine. -
correct answer ✅Interventions were often effective but depended
on the ability of public health officials to act unilaterally, often by
force.
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
The World Health Organization's definition of "health" includes all
of the following kinds of wellbeing except which one? Select only
one answer.
-Physical
-Social
-Spiritual
-Mental -
correct answer ✅Spiritual
Global health epidemiologists assert that we are now in a period
known as the "third epidemiological transition." This period is
characterized by:
- Low birth rates and low death rates due to the innovation of
antibiotics and vaccines to reduce infectious disease
-Increasing birth rates and increasing death rates due to the rapid
spread of COVID-19
,Global Health Midterm Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
-Increasing birth rates and high death rates due to the pandemic of
chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease
-Low birth rates and increasing death rates due to the dual burden
of chronic diseases and new and emerging infectious diseases -
correct answer ✅Low birth rates and increasing death rates due to
the dual burden of chronic diseases and new and emerging
infectious diseases
In global health, John Snow is best known for:
- developing the first epidemiological map and intervention in
Europe
- harboring the secret identity of Aegon Targaryen, leading him to
commit unknowing incest with his half-sister
-serving as the head of the League of Nations Health Organization,
the precursor to the World Health Organization
-almost entirely eradicating yellow fever during the construction of
the Panama Canal -
, Global Health Midterm Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
correct answer ✅developing the first epidemiological map and
intervention in Europe
Which of the following statements is true of colonial medicine,
according to our class lectures?
- It was largely motivated by an altruistic concern for the welfare of
colonized peoples.
- Interventions designed in one place were often quite effective
when exported to other places.
-Interventions were often effective but depended on the ability of
public health officials to act unilaterally, often by force.
-Political and economic factors were only secondary motivations for
colonial medicine. -
correct answer ✅Interventions were often effective but depended
on the ability of public health officials to act unilaterally, often by
force.
