Global Health Final Review Day

Aces

adverse childhood experiences

Low-income people's main health insurance

medicad

Greatest cause of disability worldwide

Depression

NHS (national health service) model who owns and operates a healthcare facility

The Government

2 reasons for good eradication (6)

1. It is a small number of pathogens - not multiple strains, it’s isolated

2. Easy to identify

3. Minimal number of vectors, ideally only person-to-person

   1. Multiple species is much harder to control

4. Elimination or control has been proven possible in other regions, a precedent that elimination is proven possible. 

5. It has a bad risk. It is significant enough that we would want to get rid of it. 

6. Social and political will. 

   1. Is there support for it?

   2. Is the government going to provide resources to help?

Diseases that come from zoonotic (come from animals) disease

1. rabies

2. malaria

3. lymes disease

The primary goal of managed care

Cost management

Primary source of house air pollution

burning of solid fuels / biomass fuels

Which “WASH” strategy is most cost effective

Hygiene (ex, hand washing)

Three E’s for injury prevention

Enforcement (law enforcement), Engineering ( design of roads), and Education (public info campaigns)

2 Factors that are contributing to the increase in antimicrobial resistance

1. Accelerated drug resistance

2. Use of agriculture

Leading behavioral risk factor for non-communicable disease

Tobacco

Why is mental health harder to diagnose than physical health

Symptoms are subjective

What is the built environment

refers to the human-made physical spaces where people live, work, and move, and how those environments influence health.

What is Prep

A medication taken by people who are not infected with HIV but are at risk of high exposure to it

Two health risks that are related to climate change

1. heat-related illnesses

2. spread of infectious diseases

3 vaccine preventable diseases

1. measles

2. tetanus

3. polio

Number one global cause of death

cardiovascular disease

In the U.S healthcare is a human right

False

3 components of haddons matrix

Pre event event post event

2 of the 6 criteria of what makes something quality healthcare

1. safety

2. effectiveness

An example of a communicable disease causing a noncommunicable disease

Hepatitis B

What is herd immunity in global health

Herd immunity in global health is the idea that when a sufficiently large proportion of a population becomes immune to an infectious disease, the spread of that disease slows or stops, thereby indirectly protecting people who are not immune.