Unit 1 Study guide (Chapter 1)

Question 1

Among the targets listed for this SDG, how is “extreme poverty defined”?

Answer 1

People living on LESS than $1.25 a day

Question 2

Among the following groups, - which one is least likely to be aware of the SDGs?

a. World Health Organization employees
b. Global health focused academics
c. United Nations agencies
d. Residents in a remote village in a developing country rated as “free”
e. Most nurses and doctors in Canada
f. Administrative personnel within the World Bank

Answer 2

Most nurses and doctors in Canada

Question 3

1. On page 2, the authors refer to the 5 key dimensions of global change in regard to health and health care delivery. What is meant by the statement of the fourth dimension: “the biomedical paradigm rooted dominantly in reductionism and biological determinism has failed to provide sustainable solutions for health and well-being”?
   In other words, which model has “failed” in improving global health outcomes?
   a. The health belief model
   b. The medical model
   c. Social determinant/socioecological model of health
   d. The behavioural model

Answer 3

The medical Model

Question 4

2. What knowledge disciplines listed below that fall outside the traditional realm of the ‘health care’ disciplines could easily be recognized as essential to the promotion of global health?
   a. Entomologist
   b. Civil engineer
   c. Epidemiologist
   d. Lawyer
   e. Zoologist
   f. Ecologist
   g. Accountant/banker
   h. Arm Forces Peace Keeper
   i. Logistician

Answer 4

ALL of them are needed.. Anyone who is a specialist in their work

Question 5

What is the point of this question in regard to Wernli’s definition of Global Health?

Answer 5

Anyone who is a specialist in a field is needed for global health.

Global health is transdisciplinary approach to research it requires not just one but many

Question 6

3. How do the authors define ‘Sustainability Science’?

Answer 6

The study of “the interactions between natural and social systems, and with how those interactions affect the challenge of sustainability; meeting the needs of present and future generations while substantially reducing poverty and conserving the planets life support system

Question 7

How do the authors define One Health or Eco-health?

Answer 7

One Health/Eco-health: Approach that seeks to address in an integrated way health issues that results from the interplay of multiple humans, animals, and environmental factors within a giving socio-ecological context

socio-ecological AKA: The social determinants of health (SDoH)

Basically means health cannot be examined by its self the SDoH has a big impact on it.