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NU411--Exam 4 Study Guide Solutions
global warming, cross border pollution, financial crises, emerging diseases, sexual slavery - Ans:✔✔-
negative aspects of globalization
World Health Organization - Ans:✔✔-intergovernmental agency to lead and coordinate worldwide health
activities; associated with the UN
World Bank - Ans:✔✔-provides low-interest loans to developing nations to fund environmental health
projects, like safe water, adequate housing, agriculture, and sanitation
Pan American Health Organization - Ans:✔✔-quasi-independent branch of WHO that works to
strengthen international and local health systems to improve health of 25 countries in Western
Hemisphere; environmental management, research/scholarship, monitors disease
United Nations Children's Fund - Ans:✔✔-concentrates its efforts in maternal and child health; focuses
on communicable disease, primary prevention, fresh water, safe food, health education for
mothers/girls, immunization
Agency for International Development - Ans:✔✔-Arm of U.S. State Department that works to advance
U.S. national security and economic prosperity; provides expertise and funding to countries needing
economic development
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Ans:✔✔-provide expertise in controlling and preventing
disease; available for consultation during emergencies where experts may be dispatched to country in
need; can provide health equipment and resources to develop a comprehensive plan for disease
control/elimination
nongovernmental organizations - Ans:✔✔-nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating
human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief
Doctors Without Borders - Ans:✔✔-non-governmental volunteer organization that helps people in war-
torn regions and aids developing countries facing endemic disease
The Carter Center - Ans:✔✔-established by President Jimmy Carter; service organization committed to
promoting human rights and improving health
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Ans:✔✔-has the same annual budget for global health as the WHO;
works to reduce disease burden in developing countries, px/tx of HIV, vaccine research, improvement of
maternal/infant health, agriculture development, etc.
urbanization, stress on global environment, increased demand for family planning, pregnancy/childbirth
complications, lack of prenatal care, HIV/AIDS - Ans:✔✔-major world population challenges
ungraded event (WHO) - Ans:✔✔-an event that is being assessed, tracked, or monitored by WHO but
that requires no response at the time
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grade one (WHO) - Ans:✔✔-a single or multiple country event with minimal public health consequences
that requires a minimal WCO response or a minimal international WHO response
grade two (WHO) - Ans:✔✔-a single or multiple country event with moderate public health
consequences that requires a moderate WCO response and/or a moderate international WHO response
grade three (WHO) - Ans:✔✔-a single or multiple country event with substantial public health
consequences that requires a substantial WHO response
personal wealth - Ans:✔✔-accumulations of assets by an individual such as money and possessions
increased productivity, increased education, decreased child mortality, better access to natural
resources, increased life expectancy - Ans:✔✔-things that come with increased personal wealth
natural resources, physical capital, education capital, carbon damage, health capital - Ans:✔✔-examples
of things included in comprehensive wealth
WHO Sustainable Development Goals - Ans:✔✔-call for action by all countries to promote prosperity
while protecting the planet
Global Treaty on Tobacco Control (2003) - Ans:✔✔-endorses a global ban on tobacco ads and promotion
to those under 18 years old, prohibits tax- and duty-free sales, ends subsidies for tobacco production,
limits exposure to second hand smoke
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NU411--Exam 4 Study Guide Solutions
global warming, cross border pollution, financial crises, emerging diseases, sexual slavery - Ans:✔✔-
negative aspects of globalization
World Health Organization - Ans:✔✔-intergovernmental agency to lead and coordinate worldwide health
activities; associated with the UN
World Bank - Ans:✔✔-provides low-interest loans to developing nations to fund environmental health
projects, like safe water, adequate housing, agriculture, and sanitation
Pan American Health Organization - Ans:✔✔-quasi-independent branch of WHO that works to
strengthen international and local health systems to improve health of 25 countries in Western
Hemisphere; environmental management, research/scholarship, monitors disease
United Nations Children's Fund - Ans:✔✔-concentrates its efforts in maternal and child health; focuses
on communicable disease, primary prevention, fresh water, safe food, health education for
mothers/girls, immunization
Agency for International Development - Ans:✔✔-Arm of U.S. State Department that works to advance
U.S. national security and economic prosperity; provides expertise and funding to countries needing
economic development
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Ans:✔✔-provide expertise in controlling and preventing
disease; available for consultation during emergencies where experts may be dispatched to country in
need; can provide health equipment and resources to develop a comprehensive plan for disease
control/elimination
nongovernmental organizations - Ans:✔✔-nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating
human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief
Doctors Without Borders - Ans:✔✔-non-governmental volunteer organization that helps people in war-
torn regions and aids developing countries facing endemic disease
The Carter Center - Ans:✔✔-established by President Jimmy Carter; service organization committed to
promoting human rights and improving health
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Ans:✔✔-has the same annual budget for global health as the WHO;
works to reduce disease burden in developing countries, px/tx of HIV, vaccine research, improvement of
maternal/infant health, agriculture development, etc.
urbanization, stress on global environment, increased demand for family planning, pregnancy/childbirth
complications, lack of prenatal care, HIV/AIDS - Ans:✔✔-major world population challenges
ungraded event (WHO) - Ans:✔✔-an event that is being assessed, tracked, or monitored by WHO but
that requires no response at the time
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grade one (WHO) - Ans:✔✔-a single or multiple country event with minimal public health consequences
that requires a minimal WCO response or a minimal international WHO response
grade two (WHO) - Ans:✔✔-a single or multiple country event with moderate public health
consequences that requires a moderate WCO response and/or a moderate international WHO response
grade three (WHO) - Ans:✔✔-a single or multiple country event with substantial public health
consequences that requires a substantial WHO response
personal wealth - Ans:✔✔-accumulations of assets by an individual such as money and possessions
increased productivity, increased education, decreased child mortality, better access to natural
resources, increased life expectancy - Ans:✔✔-things that come with increased personal wealth
natural resources, physical capital, education capital, carbon damage, health capital - Ans:✔✔-examples
of things included in comprehensive wealth
WHO Sustainable Development Goals - Ans:✔✔-call for action by all countries to promote prosperity
while protecting the planet
Global Treaty on Tobacco Control (2003) - Ans:✔✔-endorses a global ban on tobacco ads and promotion
to those under 18 years old, prohibits tax- and duty-free sales, ends subsidies for tobacco production,
limits exposure to second hand smoke
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