Public health

Question 1

What group saw the largest increase in heart disease among indigenous people?

Answer 1

Women

Question 2

What is the most important, immediate, culprit for increased heart disease among indigenous people?

Answer 2

Diabetes type 2

Question 3

Diabetes bad treatment is caused by what?

Answer 3

Poverty

Colonization

Question 4

Smoking has decreased in Canada from 5/10 to…

Answer 4

2/10 (higher among males)

Question 5

What report initiated a discourse on public health by considering environment and lifestyle?

Answer 5

Lalonde report (1974)

Question 6

What was the adverse effects of higher taxes on tobacco?

Answer 6

Diminution of government revenue (sin taxes)

Smuggling

Question 7

When did we have first evidences of the effects of smoking on health?

Answer 7

1950

Question 8

When did the Non-smoker health Act happened and what did it do?

Answer 8

1988

Restricts smoking in federal offices then in extended to most workplaces

Question 9

What is the Tobacco Act?

Answer 9

1997
Ban advertisement on tobacco
Strict labeling requirement
Designed to protect the youth

Question 10

What are the 3 aspects of a comprehensive policy?

Answer 10

Protection of non-smoker
Advertising bans and health warnings
Taxation strategies

Question 11

3 new challenges to smoking public health

Answer 11

E-cigarettes
Cannabis
Smuggling