Quiz 7: Chapter 4

Question 1

Bilateral Organization

Answer 1

A single government agency that provides aid to less developed countries, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Question 2

Bioterrorism

Answer 2

The deliberate release of viruses, bacteria, or other germs (agents) used to cause illness or death of people, animals, or plants, which may lead to pandemics and epidemics (anthrax, cholera, Ebola virus, Lassa fever, plague, and smallpox).

Question 3

Chemical Emergency

Answer 3

Occurs when a hazardous chemical has been released and the release has the potential to harm people’s health.

Question 4

Determinants

Answer 4

The factors and conditions that are important considerations in population.

Question 5

Developed Country

Answer 5

Refers to those countries with a stable economy and a wide range of industrial and technological development, low child mortality, high gross national income, and a high human asset index.

Question 6

Disability-Adjusted Life Years

Answer 6

A measure of overall disease burden, expressed as the number of years lost due to ill-health, disability or early death. It was developed in the 1990s as a way of comparing the overall health and life expectancy of different countries.

Question 7

Environmental Sanitation

Answer 7

Critical to the well-being of people around the globe. Many of the major health risks relate to interactions between people and their environment.

Question 8

Genocide

Answer 8

Developed by a jurist named Raphael Lemkin in 1944. Race killing.

Question 9

Global Burden of Disease

Answer 9

Combines losses from premature death and losses of healthy life that result from disability.

Question 10

Global Health Diplomacy

Answer 10

Refers to multilevel and multifactor negotiation processes involving environment, health, emerging diseases, and human safety.

Question 11

Health Commodification

Answer 11

Commodification of health care is a central tenet of managed care as it functions in the United States. As a result, price, cost, quality, availability, and distribution of health care are increasingly left to the workings of the competitive marketplace.

Question 12

Health for all in the 21st Century

Answer 12

The goals of health for all by the year 2000 were extended into the next century with this document.

Question 13

Less Developed Country

Answer 13

A country that does not meet the criteria of a developed country is considered a less developed country.

Question 14

Man-made Disasters

Answer 14

Include bioterrorism, chemical agents, pandemics and epidemics, radiation, and terrorism.

Question 15

Millennium Development Goals

Answer 15

Were developed to relieve poor health conditions around the world and to establish positive steps to improve living conditions by the year 2015.

Question 16

Multilateral Organizations

Answer 16

Those that receive funding from multiple government and nongovernment sources.

Question 17

Natural Disasters

Answer 17

Such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods can often come at the least expected time. Others, such as hurricanes and cyclones, are increasing in severity and destruction. Droughts are increasing as the threat of global warming rises. Typically, the poor are the worst hit, for they have the least resources to cope and rebuild.

Question 18

Nongovernmental Organizations (NGO’s)

Answer 18

Nongovernmental Organizations or private voluntary
organizations (PVOs), as well as philanthropic organizations,
provide almost 20% of all external aid to less developed
countries. NGOs and PVOs are represented by many different
kinds of religious and secular groups.

Question 19

Pan American Health Organizations (PAHO)

Answer 19

One of the oldest continuously functioning multilateral agencies, founded in 1902, and predates the WHO.

Question 20

Philanthropic Organizations

Answer 20

Receive funding from private endowment funds.

Question 21

Population Health

Answer 21

Refers to the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group, and includes health outcomes, pattern of health determinants, and policies and interventions that link these two.

Question 22

Primary Health Care

Answer 22

Ultimate goal of this is to achieve better health for all.

Question 23

Private Voluntary Organizations (PVO’s)

Answer 23

Includes philanthropic organizations.

Question 24

Radiation Poisoning

Answer 24

An excess amount of radiation is released to harm people’s health. These may be unintentional and intentional events.

Question 25

Religious Organizations

Answer 25

Reflect several denominations and religious interests, support many health care programs, including hospitals in rural and urban areas, refugee centers, orphanages, and leprosy treatment centers.

Question 26

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEFF)

Answer 26

Multilateral agency. It was formed after World War II to assist children in the war-ravaged countries of Europe, it is a subsidiary agency to the UN Economic and Social Council.

Question 27

World Bank

Answer 27

A multilateral agency that is related to the United Nations. It has collaborated with the field offices of the WHO for various health-related projects such as the control and eradication of the tropical disease onchocerciasis in West Africa, as well as programs aimed at providing safe drinking water and affordable housing, developing sanitation systems, and encouraging family planning and childhood immunizations.

Question 28

World Health Organization (WHO)

Answer 28

A separate, autonomous organization that, by special agreement, works with the United Nations through its Economic and Social Council.