Introduction to International Development, Practice Quiz: Chapter 20

Introduction to International Development, Practice Quiz: Chapter 20

Quiz Content

not completed
. Social determinants of health can be defined as ________.

not completed
. In Canada, a woman's lifetime risk of dying from complications of pregnancy or childbirth is one in ________.

not completed
. Industrialization in nineteenth-century England and Wales proved that economic gains _________.

not completed
. The ________ refers to the persistence of communicable diseases in parallel with the rapidly growing prevalence of non-communicable diseases and injuries.

not completed
. Marmot's studies of British public servants are central to the research literature on ________.

not completed
. The first rounds of multilateral trade negotiations after World War II focused on ________.

not completed
. The ________ is the UN system agency with primary responsibility for health protection.

not completed
. The 10/90 gap highlights a need ________.

not completed
. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ________.

not completed
. Donors are motivated to allocate resources to improving health outside their borders as a result of increased ________.

not completed
. Compared to people in high-income countries, people in low- and middle-income countries are increasingly exposed to ________.

not completed
. The Alma-Ata Conference was held in ________.

not completed
. ________ is defined as a shift to diets high in sugar and fat.

not completed
. Perhaps the strongest indication that health is now firmly established as an element of the foreign policy agenda of the high-income countries is ________.

not completed
. The Global Fund was established by ________.

not completed
. According to the 10/90 gap, less than 10 per cent of health research spending goes to research conditions that account for 90 per cent of the global disease burden.

not completed
. Low-income countries can realistically provide a bare minimum standard of care for their people without external resources.

not completed
. The historical record is clear that health improvements follow automatically or rapidly from economic growth.

not completed
. The socio-economic gradient exists only in developing countries.

not completed
. "Policy space" is defined as the freedom, scope, and mechanisms that governments have to choose, design, and implement public policies to fulfill their aims.

not completed
. Global health governance reflects the array of international organizations that oversee and shape global health, but without any supranational authority.

not completed
. Malaria and tuberculosis are examples of non-communicable diseases.

not completed
. A report by a commission established by the WHO stated the importance of eliminating health inequities and injustice in health system.

not completed
. Providing a bare minimum of essential health services for all the residents of a low-income country is estimate to cost an average of US$173 per person.

not completed
. The World Health Organization has 193 member states.

not completed
. Despite recent progress, more than 600 million people lack access to clean drinking water and 2.4 billion lack access to basic sanitation.

not completed
. For a long time, population health researchers believed that countries could not undergo any standardized epidemiological transition as they grew richer.

not completed
. As opposed to other causes of disability and death, a pronounced socio-economic gradient does not exist in road traffic injuries.

not completed
. Extensive literature on the relation between globalization and health has yet to be developed.

not completed
. Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) was driven in the first instance by transnational, mainly US, corporations.

Back to top