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GLPH 271 - FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS.
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For all people to realize health in a comprehensive manner health-promoting social conditions are needed, like (4 things) - answer 1. The availability of health services
Factors what influence health (3 main factors) - answer illness results from the interplay between external factors, internal factors and the social determinates of health what makes Canadians sick? (4 things- percentages) - answer 50% your life 25% your health care 15% your biology 10% your environment health equity definition - answer the absence of avoidance or remediable health differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically or geographically he ultimate goal of addressing health inequities and disparities is to achieve____ _____ - answer ·health equity upstream prevention - answer interventions that aim to treat the cause of a health problem downstream prevention - answer interventions that focus on treating the health problem For all population to become rich and healthy, Hans Rosling believed that we need: ( things) - answer 1. Time
represented or defended advocate - Joan of arc - answer believed that, despite being a girl, she was destined to help free France from the English. In her mid-teens, she managed to lead the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years War, which paved the way from the coronation of Charles VII advocate- Abraham Lincoln - answer instrumental in the preservation of the US while ending slavery and promoting economic and financial modernization advocate- Suffragette movement - answer advocated for change within society to allow and accept women's rights advocate- Dr. Martin Luther King: - answer instrumental leader during the civil rights movement for African Americans to gain equal rights advocate- Tommy Douglas - answer noted as being the father of socialized medicine which was the original beginning of our current health care system in Canada advocate- Jams Orbinski - answer founder of the McMaster University Health Reach Program that investigates and promotes the health of children in war zones According to the description of health advocate in CanMeds, physicians should be able to:
disease and promote health
incidence versus prevalence: rapidity of disease occurrence - answer incidence - proportion of population developing new cases of disease prevalence - proportion of population with disease incidence versus prevalence: units - answer incidence - cases/ person- time or cases/ population-at - risk prevalence - cases/ total population (whether newly diagnoses cases or cases developing sometime in the past) incidence versus prevalence: time of disease - answer incidence- newly diagnosed prevalence- surviving cases, whether diagnoses recently or at any time in the past incidence versus prevalence: denominator - answer incidence- number of person- years (or person- months) free of the disease on interest, Number of persons free of disease at baseline
characteristics that are known to influence mortality (e.g. age and gender). The most common standardized mortality is by - answer age how do healthcare workers overcome measurement barriers in developing countries - what are some limitations of this - answer surveys - verbal autopsy - fieldworkers go to the family of diseased and asks about symptoms, circumstances of death
disability) x duration of disability (Disability Adjustment)) pros of DALY - answer - Common metric
· the main causes of neonatal death are preterm births, infections, and birth asphyxia (strangulation) interventions improving neonatal health - answer 1. prenatal visits
disease and ___ of non- fatal disease burden - answer 10%, 30% around ___ of the world's children and adolescence have a mental disorder - answer 1/ ______is one of the leading causes of disability, affecting 264 million people - answer depression _____is the second leading cause of death in individuals aged 15- 29 - answer suicide around 1/9 people in setting affected by _____have a moderate or severe mental disorder - answer conflict people with severe mental disorders die ______ years earlier than the general population - answer 10 to 20 rates of metal health workers vary from below _____ population in low-income countries to over ______ in high-income countries - answer 2 per 100 000 70 per 100 000 the global economy loses about ____per year in productivity due to depression and anxiety