Intro to International Medicine/Global Health

Question 1

What is a developing nation?

Answer 1

areas that have inadequate healthcare w/in this borders and among its citizens, these contries lack economic growth and social stability

Question 2

What is global health?

Answer 2

field devoted to the study and improvements of the health status in developing nations, major efforts of organizations such as WHO, UN, CDC, NIH, APHA

Question 3

What are the 3 main criteria for providing adequate healthcare?

Answer 3

1. equitable access
2. affordability
3. sustainablility of services.

Question 4

what is the leading risk factor of ill heath in the world?

Answer 4

poverty

Question 5

what actions have been proven to have the best outcome in improving health, even in poor countries?

Answer 5

education about disease, treatment, and prevention

Question 6

Define prematurity.

Answer 6

defined as babies born alive before 37 weeks of pregnancy are completed - second leading cause of mortality in children under the age of 5

Question 7

What are the 3 major global infectious illnesses?

Answer 7

HIV - considered the #1 killer worldwide due to a single infectious agent

tuberculosis - multi-drug resistant TB (MDR) is found everywhere

malaria - most important arthropod born disease and parasitic disease in the world

Question 8

What are the 5 major areas of study in “developing” countries?

Answer 8

nutrition, contraception and safe obstetric care, infectious disease prevention, trauma prevention, provision of medical care

Question 9

What is the most common form of malnutrition?

Answer 9

protein energy malnutrition

Question 10

What results from both energy CHO and protein malnutrition?

Answer 10

marasmus - marked by stunted growth, extreme muscle wasting, loss of adipose tissue, no peripheral edema

Question 11

What results from protein malnutrition?

Answer 11

Kwashiorkor

Question 12

What are the main common micro-nutrition deficiencies?

Answer 12

vit A, iron, zinc, and iodine