Definitions from Class

Question 0

Public Health

Answer 0

Focuses on the health of populations, whether small villages or entire world regions.

Question 1

Health

Answer 1

A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Question 2

Global Health

Answer 2

(Transnational Health) Health concerns that cross national borders.

Question 3

International Health

Answer 3

Is now used to describe a focus on the health issues of people who live in lower income countries.

Question 4

Demographic Transitions

Answer 4

a shift towards lower birth and death rates that often occurs as populations moves from being low-income economies to becoming high income economies.

Question 5

Epidemislogic Transition

Answer 5

A shift from infectious diseases to chronic, noncommunicable diseases (NCD’s) being the primary health problem in a population, often follows the demographic transition as the economic status of a population improves.

Question 6

Nutrition Transistion

Answer 6

A population shift from a stage in which undernutrition and nutrient deficiencies are prevalent to an intermediate stage in which undernutrition and obesity are both problems in the population.

Question 7

Causal Web

Answer 7

Used to display the relationships among the many different biological, behavioral, social, economic, political and environmental exposures that might have a causal relationship with a particular health outcome.

Question 8

Epidimiology

Answer 8

Description of the distribution and determinants of morbidity, mortality and disability in population.

Question 9

Epidemic

Answer 9

(or outbreak) Occurs when a disease is occurring more often than usual and there are more than a few sporadic occurrences of disease.

Question 10

Pandemic

Answer 10

is a worldwide epidemic, like some influenza epidemics.

Question 11

Millennium Development Goals

Answer 11

1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
2. Achieve Universal Primary Education
3. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
4. Reduce Child Mortality
5. Improve Maternal Health
6. Combat HIV/AIDs, Malaria and others
7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability
8. Develop a global Partnership for Development

Question 12

Global Health situation 100 years ago

Answer 12

• High birth rates
• High death rates/short life expectancy
• High burden from infections and undernutrition

Question 13

High Income countries today

Answer 13

• Low birth rates
• Low death rates (long life)
• High burden from chronic diseases an overnutrition