final1 Flashcards
As discussed in this course, a key purpose of colonial medical missions were:
a) Import traditional medicine from colonized countries
b) Export “modernity”
c) help colonized countries achieve the best possible health outcomes
b) Export “modernity”
True or false: The World Health Organization was founded a few years before the emergence of tropical medicine?
False
Defining global health as public health somewhere else can ___
a) sideline key international organizations
b) privilege the contribution of external researchers from high income countries
c) promote inclusitivity by valuing the contributions of local populations
d) promote the decolonization of global health
d) promote the decolonization of global health
You are part of a team of experts tasked to address the following health challenges that face an urban poor neighborhood: nutrition deficiency among children, lack of access to mental health services. The municipal government insists that the team must prioritize and tackle only one challenge. The first member of your team argues that your actions would be justified if you concentrated on an issue that would yield health and wellbeing for the majority of the population. The second team member argues that all challenges and health outcomes in the neigborhood are avoidable and that you should focus on equities. The third member argues that every member should donate $10 to the project because it is wrong not to prevent suffering if actions needed will not cost you anything significant. Each of your research team member’s argument is implicity informed by one of the moral framework discussed in class.
1. Utilitarian values
2. Health equity
3. Human rights
Team 1:
Team 2:
Team 3:
Team 1: 1
Team 2: 2
Team 3: 1
A team of researchers is tasked to analyze the conditions that facilitated the increase in Opioid-related deaths and crisis in contemporary North American society. Instead of conducting research, the team decides to draw upon their own knowledge of North American culture, society, and health care systems. The first team member suggests that the opioids to patients to relieve any kind of pain. The second team member argues that the bureaucratic indifference could also play a role because successive governments did not pay adequate attention to the plight of “drug addicts”. The third team member is quick to call people “drug addicts based on his believes and societal ideas of persons who use drugs.
Match each team members positions with the most appropriate social theory.
1. Unintended consequences of purposive action
2. Structural violence
3. Social construction of health and illness
First team:
Second team:
Third team:
1
2
3
Which of the following statement is true about tropical medicine
a) Tropical medicine did not reflect European priorities.
b) Tropical medicine predates international health
c) most parasitic diseases (e.g. malaria) were seen as enemies of the colonial expansion.
d) Tropical medicine reproduced essentialist beliefs about race, climate, and health.
b) Tropical medicine predates international health
c) most parasitic diseases (e.g. malaria) were seen as enemies of the colonial expansion.
After declaration of a public health emergency of international concern, countries are expected to do all of the following except:
a) Mobilize financial and technical support where necessary
b) Share critical information for risk assessment
c) Implement recommendations formulated by the emergency committee
d) Close their borders within the shortest possible time
d) Close their borders within the shortest possible time
Beyond clarifying why an action is important, a particular moral value can influence health actions in other deeply important ways. For example, a provincial governor is torn between 2 program options: 1) pursuing access to health care; and 2) distribution of health outcomes.
In the former case, the program would invest heavily in building health clinics and outposts and doctors might not want to work in rural areas. This was very appealing until the governor recognised that the provinces has many rural health outposts and doctors might no want to work in rural areas. The governor then decides to pursue the latter option, which requires using exiting provincial laws to direct 70% of rural budget to address all social determinants of the avoidable deaths in many rural areas. This led to the reduction in avoidable deaths in many rural areas.
The local religious leaders in the province wrote a letter to the governor urging to reconsider the 70% provincial budget allocated to rural areas. They argue that rural areas constitute 20% of the entire provincial population and should therefore not receive such a large amount of the budget, which only improves health for 20% of the entire population.
Match the governor’s and religious leader’s actions/arguments against the most appropriate moral value.
1. Health equity
2. Utilitarian values
3. Health as a human right
4. Religion
The second option of the governor:
The 1st option of the governor:
Arguments of the religious leaders:
The second option of the governor: 2
The 1st option of the governor: 1
Arguments of the religious leaders: 1
True or false: Global health is about health equity such that if you do research on the health implications of homelessness in Kingston, your research should be eligible for consideration in a global health journal
true
The statement “Global health actions can have both positive and negative outcomes”:
1. Unintended consequences of purposive action
2. Health equity
3. Utilitarianism
4. Social construction of health
5. Structural violence
- Unintended consequences of purposive action
The statement “Knowledge about diseases and illness states is formed through perceptions, experiences or interactions between people”:
1. Unintended consequences of purposive action
2. Health equity
3. Utilitarianism
4. Social construction of health
5. Structural violence
- Social construction of health
After the emergence of global health,
a) Tropical medicine transformed into international health
b) International health transformed into tropical medicine
c) the legacies of tropical medicine and international health became things of the past
d) All of the above
e) None of the above
e) None of the above
Brock Chisholm, the first Canadian Director general of the WHO, was unpopular in Canada for many reasons including:
a) support for birth control
b) his views about Santa Clause
c) strong christian beliefs
d) actions during the second world war
a) support for birth control
b) his views about Santa Clause
True or false: Global health is about health equity, such that a person whose research whose research addresses Indigenous health equity in Canada should eligible to receive global health research funding from the Federal government.
True
At its formation, 2 primary aims set the WHO apart from its predecessors:
a) Universal membership and centralized authority
b) Universal membership and decentralization
c) Centralized authority and regional integration
d) Centralized authority and global integration
b) Universal membership and decentralization
