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Chapter 1 Flashcards

1
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Why study global health?

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  1. Understand the progress that has been made so far
  2. Understand remaining challenges of global health
  3. it’s easier for diseases to spread
  4. link between health and development
  5. we live in a globalized world
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A state of complete mental, physical and social well being. It is not the absence of disease or injury

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health

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The science of preventing disease, promoting health and efficiency, educating communities, organizing medical services, and development of social practices to ensure a standard of living adequate for good health

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public health

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4
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What are the key tenants of public health?

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prevention, respect for human rights, developing community health, evidence-based

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The scientific goal of developing individual services for the diagnosis, treatment and care for individual patients

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medicine

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6
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What does public health consider to be it’s strongest resource for prevention?

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vaccines

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7
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Areas where global health has failed

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disparities in acess to medical services, life expectancy, social justice goals

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The scientific study of world wide health improvement that focuses on transnational efforts, solutions, determinates and issues related to health and beyond.

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global health

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9
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Protection of colonialist from tropical disease

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global health 1.0

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10
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wealthier countries helping countries with less

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global health 2.0

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Collective action, shared risks and shared responsibilities to health

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global health 3.0

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12
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How to classify countries

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by incomes level based on gross national income

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13
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a factor that may lead to the development of a disease or an injury

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risk factor

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14
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diseases that cannot be passed from person to person by an infectious agent

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noncommunicable disease

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disease that can be spread by an infectious agent

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communicable disease

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How is poor health related to development?

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poor health can cause children to not reach their full potential and diminish the economy of a country

17
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Why is global health needed?

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some problems can only be solved with a global approach

18
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A health campaign to immunize children in a community. This is an example of what?

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public health

19
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guiding factors of public health

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prevention, respect for human rights, commitment to developing community health, evidence-based, taking account of a wide range of values, beliefs and culture and building collaborations in the community

20
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guiding principals of global health

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use a global perspective, cooperative action, interdisciplinary approach, multilevel interventions and comprehensive health policies and financing

21
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creating a program to help undernutrition among children in South Asia and Africa is an example of what?

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global health

22
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Important issues in global health

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impact of the environment, how countries manage their health systems, search for new technologies, globalization, epidemiological changes

23
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the integrative effort of multiple disciplines to attain optimal health for all animals, humans and the environment

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one health

24
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the achievement of the highest attainable standard of living worldwide.

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planetary health

25
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World bank country income groups

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low income, lower middle income, upper middle income, high income

26
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17 global goals that focus on improving the well being of humans, animals and the environment

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sustainable development goals

27
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SDG that has a direct link with global health

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goal 3: good health and well-being

28
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SDG that have an indirect link with global health

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  1. no poverty
  2. zero hunger
    4 quality education
  3. clean water and sanitation
29
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When are the SDGs supposed to achieved by?

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2020 or 2030

30
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8 goals related to improving the health care of the world

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Millennium development goals

31
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Who and when created the small pox vaccine?

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Edward jenner, 1798

32
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When did eradication of small pox become a goal and why

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1959, a form of the vaccine that did not need refrigeration was created and reusable needs

33
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What techniques did the small pox eradication team use to get people vaccinated?

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training villagers, heard immunity, ring vaccination, using pre-existing social circles to find people

34
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when was small pox eradicated?

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1980

35
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What makes small pox unique and easy to vaccinate against?

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spreads directly between people, easy to tell who has it, no reservoirs, survivors gained lifetime immunity, became infectious when symptoms showed

36
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What was unique about the small pox eradication team?

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small team responsible, often only one person in charge of each country’s efforts, flexible individuals

37
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What are the 8 MDGs?

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  1. Eradicate poverty and hunger
  2. universal primary education
  3. gender equality
  4. reduce child mortality
  5. reduce maternal mortality
  6. combat HIV/AID
  7. develop global partnership
  8. environmental protection

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