MAPEH HEALTH - EXISTING GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVES

Question 1

Existing Global Health Initiatives

Answer 1

• Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
• World Health Organization Framework
• Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)
• Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol
• Global Mental Health Action Plan
• Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations

Question 2

An intergovernmental organization that acts as the fundamental union among participating countries

Answer 2

UN (UNITED NATIONS)

Question 3

Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering economic and social development, protecting the environment, and providing humanitarian aid.

Answer 3

Millennium Development Goals

Question 4

Its main objectives are to end poverty, protect the planet, ensure prosperity for all members of humankind.

Answer 4

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Question 5

The world’s first modern-day global public health treaty about the effects of tobacco consumption; negotiated under the World Health Organization

Answer 5

World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)

Question 6

The plan led by WHO to develop mental health services. It also includes the support of having a mental health program in each community in a country

Answer 6

Global Mental Health Action Plan

Question 7

A program led by the World Health Organization to save people’s lives from the dangerous effects of alcohol use

Answer 7

Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcoho

Question 8

A global health partnership which is aimed at universal immunization; from both public and private sector organizations, aims to save children’s lives and protect people’s lives by increasing access to immunization in poor countries

Answer 8

Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI)