Global Health 2026 Exam
Questions and Correct
Answers | New Update
What is health according to WHO? - ANSWER ✔✔a state of
complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
What is an ideal health trajectory? - ANSWER ✔✔it begins with a
consenting adult becoming pregnant and having a healthy baby with no
pregnancy complications. Continues with a healthy infant growing into
adulthood without getting serious illnesses or infections. Gentle death at
a very old age.
,Influencing Healthy Life Trajectories - ANSWER ✔✔a diversity of
medical, behavioral, social, economic, environmental, and other
interventions can help people make progress toward long, healthy life
trajectories.
Global Health - ANSWER ✔✔refers to the collaborative actions
taken to identify and address transnational concerns about the
exposures and diseases that adversely affect human populations
Medicine - ANSWER ✔✔focus on individuals on preventing,
diagnosing, and treating health problems
Public Health - ANSWER ✔✔focus on populations, on promoting
health and preventing illness, injuries and early deaths at the population
level
Reasons to study Global Health - ANSWER ✔✔-increase awareness
of health disparities
-understand link between health and development
-to learn about low cost but highly effective interventions
What is an intervention? - ANSWER ✔✔a strategic action intended
to improve individual and population health status. Interventions targeted
,at any level from the individual, to community, the nation, and the world,
can be effective at improving personal and public health
Examples of interventions that improve health trajectories across life
span - ANSWER ✔✔nutritional support, antibiotics, skilled birth
attendants, medical therapies
Primary Prevention
aka:
Target:
Goal:
Examples: - ANSWER ✔✔-prevention
-people without disease
-prevent disease from ever occurring
-vaccinating kids to protect from paralytic polio, passing out condoms
Secondary Prevention
aka:
Target:
Goal:
Examples: - ANSWER ✔✔-early diagnosis
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, -people with early, non-symptomatic disease
-reduce severity of disease and prevent disability and death
-checking blood pressure to detect onset of hypertension, screening with
mammography to detect early stage breast cancer
Tertiary Prevention
aka:
Target:
Goal:
Examples: - ANSWER ✔✔-treatment and rehabilitation
-people with symptomatic disease
-reduce impairment and minimizes suffering
-extracting teeth with severe decay to alleviate pain, physical therapy to
people who have been injured in car crash to prevent long term disability
What is a health transition? - ANSWER ✔✔a shift in the health status
of a population that usually occurs in conjunction with socioeconomic
development
Questions and Correct
Answers | New Update
What is health according to WHO? - ANSWER ✔✔a state of
complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
What is an ideal health trajectory? - ANSWER ✔✔it begins with a
consenting adult becoming pregnant and having a healthy baby with no
pregnancy complications. Continues with a healthy infant growing into
adulthood without getting serious illnesses or infections. Gentle death at
a very old age.
,Influencing Healthy Life Trajectories - ANSWER ✔✔a diversity of
medical, behavioral, social, economic, environmental, and other
interventions can help people make progress toward long, healthy life
trajectories.
Global Health - ANSWER ✔✔refers to the collaborative actions
taken to identify and address transnational concerns about the
exposures and diseases that adversely affect human populations
Medicine - ANSWER ✔✔focus on individuals on preventing,
diagnosing, and treating health problems
Public Health - ANSWER ✔✔focus on populations, on promoting
health and preventing illness, injuries and early deaths at the population
level
Reasons to study Global Health - ANSWER ✔✔-increase awareness
of health disparities
-understand link between health and development
-to learn about low cost but highly effective interventions
What is an intervention? - ANSWER ✔✔a strategic action intended
to improve individual and population health status. Interventions targeted
,at any level from the individual, to community, the nation, and the world,
can be effective at improving personal and public health
Examples of interventions that improve health trajectories across life
span - ANSWER ✔✔nutritional support, antibiotics, skilled birth
attendants, medical therapies
Primary Prevention
aka:
Target:
Goal:
Examples: - ANSWER ✔✔-prevention
-people without disease
-prevent disease from ever occurring
-vaccinating kids to protect from paralytic polio, passing out condoms
Secondary Prevention
aka:
Target:
Goal:
Examples: - ANSWER ✔✔-early diagnosis
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2026. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, -people with early, non-symptomatic disease
-reduce severity of disease and prevent disability and death
-checking blood pressure to detect onset of hypertension, screening with
mammography to detect early stage breast cancer
Tertiary Prevention
aka:
Target:
Goal:
Examples: - ANSWER ✔✔-treatment and rehabilitation
-people with symptomatic disease
-reduce impairment and minimizes suffering
-extracting teeth with severe decay to alleviate pain, physical therapy to
people who have been injured in car crash to prevent long term disability
What is a health transition? - ANSWER ✔✔a shift in the health status
of a population that usually occurs in conjunction with socioeconomic
development
