SSSCI 315 Quiz 1 answers

Question 1

1) What is the key difference between International Health and Global Health?

Answer 1

Global Health emphasizes the mutuality of real partnership, whereas
International Health was more about high-income countries helping
low- and middle-income countries (Koplan et al. article)

Question 2

2) Why is global health so interested in countries like Costa Rica and Sri Lanka?

Answer 2

Because they achieve better health outcomes than would be
expected given their income levels (Skolnik, Chap. 1)

Question 3

3) What has been the problem with the “who” of Global Health research so far?

Answer 3

It has been dominated by researchers with biomedical backgrounds
in high-income countries publishing findings in journals based in
high-income countries for audiences in high-income countries
(García-Basteiro & Abimbola).

Question 4

4) What makes a health condition or challenge “global”?

Answer 4

Its scope, not its location (Koplan et al.)
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SHORT ANSWERS (HISTORY OF GLOBAL HEALTH)

Question 5

5) In what ways was missionary medicine both different from and similar to
curative medicine?

Answer 5

Missionary medicine was interested in saving souls, thereby linking
health and salvation (unlike curative medicine), but it also used
curative medicine as a means of saving individual lives (Farmer et
al., Chap. 3).

Question 6

6) Why did Mohan Singh violently resist being vaccinated for smallpox?

Answer 6

Religion and fatalism (dharma) (Juran, Trivedi, & Kolivras article)

Question 7

7) What is the difference between a vertical and a horizontal health intervention?

Answer 7

The vertical approach = a disease-specific top-down approach; the
horizontal approach = a more comprehensive approach that seeks to
treat the underlying issues/social determinants in a population that
cause various diseases and health problems (Farmer et al.; lectures).

Question 8

8) The WHO incorporated what 3 pre-existing health organizations/institutions?

Answer 8

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Office
International d’Hygiène Publique (OIHP), and the League of Nations
Health Organization (Brazelton; lectures).

Question 9

9) What 2 vaccination strategies were adopted in India under the SEP?

Answer 9

Large-scale mass vaccination, then surveillance-containment (Juran,
Trivedi, & Kolivras article)

Question 10

10) International cooperation to control cholera was linked to the construction of
(a) what canal in (b) what country – and cholera became a real threat to
troops during (c) the U.S. occupation of what country?

Answer 10

(a) Suez Canal in
(b) Egypt;
(c) the Philippines