Global Health Nursing - Midterm
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Answers (Grade A+)
Global Health -
correct answer ✅focuses on issues that are directly or indirectly
affecting health beyond national boundaries
- current state of global health; thought of as a notion
- objective (world of healthy people)
- embraces both population and individual health preventions
- mix of clinical practice, research and scholarship that prioritizes
improving health and achieving equity in health for all people
worldwide
Global Health Definition -
correct answer ✅universal health as a human right for all
regardless of age, race, social status or resources
Objective of Global Health -
correct answer ✅social justice and health equity; global
cooperation to develop interventions to improve access to health
care and address social injustice (highly interdisciplinary and
beyond health services)
,Global Health Nursing - Midterm
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International Health -
correct answer ✅the study of health issues that affect people
living in the developing world (low and middle-income countries)
- requires binational cooperation
- prevention in both populations and individuals
- seeks to help people in other nations
- embraces few disciplines but not yet multidisciplinary
International Health Definition -
correct answer ✅management of infectious diseases, global
pandemics, health disparities among less resourced countries
Objective of International Health -
correct answer ✅seeks to help people in other nations through
binational cooperation; focuses on prevention in both populations
and individuals
Global Citizenship -
correct answer ✅understanding one's place in and one's impact
on the world community and engaging in activities that support
,Global Health Nursing - Midterm
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global environmental, social, and economic sustainability; views
world as a complex web of connections and interdependencies
Global Health Nurse -
correct answer ✅practices from a global perspective for
individuals, families, communities and populations; developing
understanding for others and interconnect to our shared humanity
- developing sustainable health systems with health equity and
promotion of health
- there is no one or correct path to solving these disparities
Public Health -
correct answer ✅focuses on the health of populations in a
particular community or country; does not usually require global
cooperation
- mainly focused on prevention for the population
- health equity for the population
- encourages multidisciplinary approaches within health and social
sectors
, Global Health Nursing - Midterm
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Answers (Grade A+)
Objective of Public Health -
correct answer ✅promoting health equity for the population
through multidisciplinary collaboration and approaches
Global Inequities -
correct answer ✅widened gap between industrialized parts of the
world and non-industrialized parts of the world; systematically
produced by social norms, policies and practices that tolerate or
promote unfair distribution of and access to power, wealth and
other necessary social resources
Global Health as a Threat -
correct answer ✅overall looks at the cons of globalization
- threat of emerging diseases
- increased international travel
- trading contaminated food
- climate change
- bioterrorism
Global Health as Social Justice Priority -
correct answer ✅overall looks at addressing inequities
(Weeks 1-6) Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Global Health -
correct answer ✅focuses on issues that are directly or indirectly
affecting health beyond national boundaries
- current state of global health; thought of as a notion
- objective (world of healthy people)
- embraces both population and individual health preventions
- mix of clinical practice, research and scholarship that prioritizes
improving health and achieving equity in health for all people
worldwide
Global Health Definition -
correct answer ✅universal health as a human right for all
regardless of age, race, social status or resources
Objective of Global Health -
correct answer ✅social justice and health equity; global
cooperation to develop interventions to improve access to health
care and address social injustice (highly interdisciplinary and
beyond health services)
,Global Health Nursing - Midterm
(Weeks 1-6) Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
International Health -
correct answer ✅the study of health issues that affect people
living in the developing world (low and middle-income countries)
- requires binational cooperation
- prevention in both populations and individuals
- seeks to help people in other nations
- embraces few disciplines but not yet multidisciplinary
International Health Definition -
correct answer ✅management of infectious diseases, global
pandemics, health disparities among less resourced countries
Objective of International Health -
correct answer ✅seeks to help people in other nations through
binational cooperation; focuses on prevention in both populations
and individuals
Global Citizenship -
correct answer ✅understanding one's place in and one's impact
on the world community and engaging in activities that support
,Global Health Nursing - Midterm
(Weeks 1-6) Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
global environmental, social, and economic sustainability; views
world as a complex web of connections and interdependencies
Global Health Nurse -
correct answer ✅practices from a global perspective for
individuals, families, communities and populations; developing
understanding for others and interconnect to our shared humanity
- developing sustainable health systems with health equity and
promotion of health
- there is no one or correct path to solving these disparities
Public Health -
correct answer ✅focuses on the health of populations in a
particular community or country; does not usually require global
cooperation
- mainly focused on prevention for the population
- health equity for the population
- encourages multidisciplinary approaches within health and social
sectors
, Global Health Nursing - Midterm
(Weeks 1-6) Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Objective of Public Health -
correct answer ✅promoting health equity for the population
through multidisciplinary collaboration and approaches
Global Inequities -
correct answer ✅widened gap between industrialized parts of the
world and non-industrialized parts of the world; systematically
produced by social norms, policies and practices that tolerate or
promote unfair distribution of and access to power, wealth and
other necessary social resources
Global Health as a Threat -
correct answer ✅overall looks at the cons of globalization
- threat of emerging diseases
- increased international travel
- trading contaminated food
- climate change
- bioterrorism
Global Health as Social Justice Priority -
correct answer ✅overall looks at addressing inequities
