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Advance PUBH 580 Rural Health Issues in a Global Health context
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Advance PUBH 580 Rural Health Issuesin a Global Health context
A 'first pass effect' refers to: - ANSWER-When disease incidence spikes right after
treatment becomes available
A 'vertical' approach to global health problems is: - ANSWER-A disease-focused
approach, typical of the selective primary health care method.
A care delivery value chain maps out the relevant health delivery activities, highlighting
the flow of care and the links between different providers and services. - ANSWER-True
A DALY is a - ANSWER-Disability adjusted life year & Way of quantifying years lost to
poor health, disability, and early death
About how many infants and children die worldwide each year? - ANSWER-8 million
According to Farmer et al, a diagonal health system is a well-delivered vertical approach
(selective health care) that contains elements of a horizontal health care approach like
primary health care. - ANSWER-True
According to Farmer in RGH, the authors' biosocial approach allows them to -
ANSWER-Critique the global health discourse from the re-socializing disciplines
According to Farmer, 'global health delivery' depends upon - ANSWER-Provision of
health interventions, Efficiency, Equitability
According to Farmer, five of the leading causes of death in low income countries are -
ANSWER-Diarrheal diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, neonatal infections, and malaria
According to Koplan, international health focuses on health issues in - ANSWER-Low
and middle income countries
According to RGH, the 'health for all' approach was abandoned during the 1980s during
the Reagan and Thatcher years because, in part: - ANSWER-Widespread debt crises
dealt with by the IMF and the World Bank, paired with neoliberalism, forced a
reconsideration of the 'health care is a right' proposition that emerged from Alma-Ata
According to Table 1.2 in RGH, when comparing low, middle, and high-income
countries, the low-income country category was the only one in which an infectious
disease was the #1 cause of DALYs. - ANSWER-True
According to the Jacobsen chapter, women who give birth to fewer children generally
have healthier children - ANSWER-True
, According to Weber's analysis of authority, match the following types of authority and
types of roles: - ANSWER-Regional-Legal: DPPHS
Charismatic: Dr. Oz
Traditional: Faith leader among christian scientists
An unintended consequence of public health announcements about the dangers of
needle sharing and the public's association between needs and health clinics: -
ANSWER-Weakened the public's confidence in the Ugandan health system.
By 'lay epidemiology', Nichter refers to: - ANSWER-How local people recognize and
understand disease transmission routes.
By 'state-based vulnerability', Nichter refers to climatic and environmental factors
believed to impact health. - ANSWER-True
By 'structural violence', Farmer et al refer to: - ANSWER-Social suffering that is
structured by historical and economic factors to constrain an individual's agency.
By biopower, Foucault refers to: - ANSWER-How people are divided, defined, counted
and disciplined through institutions shaping their health outcomes and how these are
controlled by political, social and economic structures.
Click the option that was not one of Farmer et al's named 4 principles of global health
delivery. - ANSWER-Adopting a holistic primary health care approach.
Comprehensive primary health care gave way to selective health care approaches in
part because: - ANSWER-Selective approaches are more targeted, measurable and
easier to achieve.
Define a syndemic. - ANSWER-After reading the text, I define a syndemic as the
aggregation of two or more concurrent or sequential epidemics in a population with
biological interactions that exacerbate the prognosis and burden of disease. An
example could be the SAVA syndemic which is comprised of substance abuse,
violence, and AIDS which are 3 conditions that disproportionately affect those living in
poverty in the US.
Define accompaniments, drawn from Farmer et al in RGH. - ANSWER-After reading
Farmer's discussion on the Accompaniment approach to aid, I would define it as an
team effort approach to help government systems or communities gain and maintain
independent control of economic development and health care delivery. Through the
discussion of the 8 principles of Accompaniment, you can easily understand that the
focus is on creating an economic and public health system that the people want, by and
with the people who want it. With the team approach to accompaniment, you not only
use the community to develop the program, but you utilize both public and private
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