PUBH 3010 Final Exam Ch. 2
Questions and Answers.
Based on health transitions theory, which country is likely to have the highest life expectancy?
a) high-income country
b) middle-income country
c) low-income country - Answer a) high-income country
The number of years the average individual born into the population can expect to live without
disability is expressed as which of the following?
a) life expectancy
b) healthy life expectancy
c) years of life lost
d) years lived with disability - Answer b) healthy life expectancy
Which of the following metrics quantifies the additional duration of life and quality of life
conferred to populations by successful public health interventions?
a) healthy life expectancy
b) years lived with disability
c) quality-adjusted life year
d) disability-adjusted life year - Answer c) quality-adjusted life year
Which of the following is not generally listed as high priority for public health in the United
States?
a) environment
b) EIDs
c) micronutrient deficiencies
d) violence - Answer c) micronutrient deficiencies
Which of the following is not a core public health discipline?
a) epidemiology
b) health promotion
c) medicine
d) environmental health - Answer c) medicine
, Economists frequently use health-adjusted life year estimates similar to the disability-adjusted
life year as part of cost-effectiveness analyses
- true or false - Answer true
Disability-adjusted life years can be directly measured, but more complicated health metrics
incidence and prevalence must be estimated with complex equations.
- true or false - Answer false
The success of the Millennium Development Goals was the impetus to create the follow-up set
of goals known as the Sustainable Development Goals
- true or false - Answer true
Like the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals consider health to
be both a necessary prerequisite to and an outcome of economic growth
- true or false - Answer true
When future generations compile lists celebrating the major global health accomplishments of
the 21st century, those lists will reflect the decisions today's global health leaders make about
which projects to prioritize
- true or false - Answer true
In 1775, what man identified chimney soot as the cause of elevated rates of scrotal cancer in
chimney sweeps, which was the result of constant exposure to coal tar due to sweeps rarely
bathing or changing their trousers
a) John Snow
b) James Lind
c) Percivall Pott
d) Bernardino Ramazzini - Answer c) Percivall Pott
A megacity is a metropolitan area with more than how many inhabitants?
a) 1 million
b) 3 million
c) 5 million
d) 10 million - Answer d) 10 million
Since the majority of people worldwide live in metropolitan areas, which of the following is a
core component of global public health?
a) rural health
Questions and Answers.
Based on health transitions theory, which country is likely to have the highest life expectancy?
a) high-income country
b) middle-income country
c) low-income country - Answer a) high-income country
The number of years the average individual born into the population can expect to live without
disability is expressed as which of the following?
a) life expectancy
b) healthy life expectancy
c) years of life lost
d) years lived with disability - Answer b) healthy life expectancy
Which of the following metrics quantifies the additional duration of life and quality of life
conferred to populations by successful public health interventions?
a) healthy life expectancy
b) years lived with disability
c) quality-adjusted life year
d) disability-adjusted life year - Answer c) quality-adjusted life year
Which of the following is not generally listed as high priority for public health in the United
States?
a) environment
b) EIDs
c) micronutrient deficiencies
d) violence - Answer c) micronutrient deficiencies
Which of the following is not a core public health discipline?
a) epidemiology
b) health promotion
c) medicine
d) environmental health - Answer c) medicine
, Economists frequently use health-adjusted life year estimates similar to the disability-adjusted
life year as part of cost-effectiveness analyses
- true or false - Answer true
Disability-adjusted life years can be directly measured, but more complicated health metrics
incidence and prevalence must be estimated with complex equations.
- true or false - Answer false
The success of the Millennium Development Goals was the impetus to create the follow-up set
of goals known as the Sustainable Development Goals
- true or false - Answer true
Like the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals consider health to
be both a necessary prerequisite to and an outcome of economic growth
- true or false - Answer true
When future generations compile lists celebrating the major global health accomplishments of
the 21st century, those lists will reflect the decisions today's global health leaders make about
which projects to prioritize
- true or false - Answer true
In 1775, what man identified chimney soot as the cause of elevated rates of scrotal cancer in
chimney sweeps, which was the result of constant exposure to coal tar due to sweeps rarely
bathing or changing their trousers
a) John Snow
b) James Lind
c) Percivall Pott
d) Bernardino Ramazzini - Answer c) Percivall Pott
A megacity is a metropolitan area with more than how many inhabitants?
a) 1 million
b) 3 million
c) 5 million
d) 10 million - Answer d) 10 million
Since the majority of people worldwide live in metropolitan areas, which of the following is a
core component of global public health?
a) rural health
