Question 1 Which of the following statements about injuries is true?
High-income people tend to have a higher risk of injury than low-income people
Most injuries are intentional
Road traffic accidents are the most common cause of unintentional injury death worldwide
War is a more common cause of death worldwide than suicide
Question 2 According to the Global Burden of Disease classification scheme, which of the
following conditions is not a noncommunicable disease (NCD)?
Hypertension
Lung Cancer
Osteoporos
Poisoning
Question 3 The life expectancy at birth in Sierra Leone is about 38 years. What can you infer
about the population of Sierra Leone?
About half of adults in Sierra Leone die in their 30s or 40s.
Few 50-year-olds in Sierra Leone will survive to their 60th birthdays.
There are a lot of infant and child deaths in Sierra Leone.
Question 4 Which term is best used to describe the proportion of people in a population who
have particular disease?
DALY
Incidence