Global Health and Disparities

Question 1

The infrastructure build during colonization is. . .

Answer 1

. . . resource extraction infrastructure.

Not designed for interconnectivity, no investment in education or urban development, just resource extraction.

Question 2

Corruption and poverty are ___ correlated.

Answer 2

Corruption and poverty are directly correlated.

Question 3

clan-based thinking

Answer 3

Picking a “qualified” candidate from an anonymous group is less favorable than picking a known candidate who you can therefore trust. You don’t want to pick just any schmuck.

Question 4

Wealth and religiosity are ___ correlated.

Answer 4

Wealth and religiosity are strongly negatively correlated.

Question 5

The magic wealth temperature

Answer 5

16^oC

At and below this temperature, many insects and diseases cannot survive, thus giving mammals a great survival and health advantage (good for both human health and domesticated mammal health)

Specifically, the concerns are malaria and the tsetse fly.

Question 6

The resources trap

Answer 6

Resources are an intensifier:

They make rich countries richer, but paradoxically make poor countries poorer.

Rich countries can afford to invest in domestic manufacturing, but poor countries can only extract the resources and sell them abroad.

Question 7

___ does a better job of predicting a community’s future than its economic status.

Answer 7

Shared perception of a neighborhood does a better job of predicting a community’s future than its economic status.

Question 8

Reason why impoverished mothers choose to remain single

Answer 8

Not because they do not value marriage, as many suggest, but because they do not think of their partners as “marriage material”.

Question 9

Patrimonialism

Answer 9

A style of government in which politicians control power through a system of personal relationships where policies/favors are exchanged in return for political support.

Counterproductive to economic development, representative government, and accountable institutions.

Question 10

Many of the narratives collected from Sierra Leone citizens during Ebola outbreaks reveal that thenarrator contracted Ebola from. . .

Answer 10

. . . a loved one who had received a false negative test and was discharged with a false sense of security.