Global Health - 3005 Exam Questions
& Answers (Grade A+)
What is global health? -
correct answer ✅an area for study, research and practice that
places priority on improving health and achieving equity in health
for all people worldwide
What is the concept of global health? -
correct answer ✅The concept of global health infers the constant
attention to the social determinants of health
Global Health
What does the WHO "Health for All" mean? -
correct answer ✅means that resources for health are evenly
distributed and essential healthcare is available to everyone
Global Health
What does the WHO recognize in terms of the goal that resources
for health are evenly distributed and essential healthcare is
available to everyone? -
correct answer ✅WHO recognizes that this goal is currently only a
reality for those who live in the 'minority world'
,Global Health - 3005 Exam Questions
& Answers (Grade A+)
Minority world-first world nations (Canada, US, Australia Europe)
pop'n 900 million people
Majority world-third world nations (most of Africa, Asia, Latin
America) pop'n 5.4 billion people
Global Health
What does this 'right to health' really mean? -
correct answer ✅Governments must generate environments that
support individuals to be as healthy as possible
Does not mean everyone has the right to be healthy
Recognition that vulnerable and marginalized populations tend to
suffer an unbalanced burden of health problems
"The right to health" Diagram -
correct answer ✅Underlying determinants: water, sanitation, food,
, Global Health - 3005 Exam Questions
& Answers (Grade A+)
nutrition, housing, healthy occupational and environmental,
education, information
Health Care
AAAQ:
Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability, Quality
WHO: Right to Health -
correct answer ✅The International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights (1966) in Article 12 states that steps for the
realization of the right to health include those that:
-Reduce infant mortality and ensure the healthy development of
the child
-Improve environmental and industrial hygiene
-Prevent, treat and control epidemic, endemic, occupational and
other diseases;
& Answers (Grade A+)
What is global health? -
correct answer ✅an area for study, research and practice that
places priority on improving health and achieving equity in health
for all people worldwide
What is the concept of global health? -
correct answer ✅The concept of global health infers the constant
attention to the social determinants of health
Global Health
What does the WHO "Health for All" mean? -
correct answer ✅means that resources for health are evenly
distributed and essential healthcare is available to everyone
Global Health
What does the WHO recognize in terms of the goal that resources
for health are evenly distributed and essential healthcare is
available to everyone? -
correct answer ✅WHO recognizes that this goal is currently only a
reality for those who live in the 'minority world'
,Global Health - 3005 Exam Questions
& Answers (Grade A+)
Minority world-first world nations (Canada, US, Australia Europe)
pop'n 900 million people
Majority world-third world nations (most of Africa, Asia, Latin
America) pop'n 5.4 billion people
Global Health
What does this 'right to health' really mean? -
correct answer ✅Governments must generate environments that
support individuals to be as healthy as possible
Does not mean everyone has the right to be healthy
Recognition that vulnerable and marginalized populations tend to
suffer an unbalanced burden of health problems
"The right to health" Diagram -
correct answer ✅Underlying determinants: water, sanitation, food,
, Global Health - 3005 Exam Questions
& Answers (Grade A+)
nutrition, housing, healthy occupational and environmental,
education, information
Health Care
AAAQ:
Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability, Quality
WHO: Right to Health -
correct answer ✅The International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights (1966) in Article 12 states that steps for the
realization of the right to health include those that:
-Reduce infant mortality and ensure the healthy development of
the child
-Improve environmental and industrial hygiene
-Prevent, treat and control epidemic, endemic, occupational and
other diseases;
