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10 biggest global health threats of the decade - CORRECT ANSWER: main obstacles= global warming, conflict zones, unfair healthcare provision, requiring international effort

• elevating health in the climate debate: emissions kill more than 7 million, responsible

for more than 1/4 deaths from diseases including heart attack/stroke -extreme weather events increase malnutrition

• delivering health in conflict and crisis: those forced to flee cannot access healthcare,

attacks on healthcare workers

3. making healthcare fairer: health-wealth gradient

-rise in chronic diseases have a greater impact on low/middle income countries

4. expanding access to medicines: 1/3 do not have access, need to gain trust of

providers

• stopping infectious diseases: focus on prevention, greater funding/ political will is

required for immunization programs

• preparing for epidemics: must focus on preparing for future outbreaks and less on

reacting to new strains of a virus

• protecting people from dangerous products: promote healthy diets, work to combat

obesity -reduce reliance on harmful foodstuffs

• investing in the people who defend our health: shortage of workers in low income

communities, properly train them and provide decent salaries

• keeping adolescents safe: focus on mental health to avoid road accidents, suicides,

HIV, focus on contraceptives

• earning public trust

-combat false social media, work with community partners and programs

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assumptions of health promotion - CORRECT ANSWER: 1. Health status can be

changed: empowering the individual

2. Disease occurrence can be understood: dose response

• Prevention strategies can be developed for health problems.
• Health is affected by multiple factors - not just lifestyle.
• Changes in micro & macro level behaviors and factors can positively affect health.
• People & communities can assume responsibility for their health.
• Individual responsibility does not mean victim blaming
• For permanent behavior change, people must be ready & motivated.

background on infectious diseases - CORRECT ANSWER: still a leading cause of death worldwide, even though we have eliminated or eradicated some -diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under 5 -rise in strain and antibiotic resistance: food systems, bioaccumulation, many STIs are resistant to antibiotics, takes several decades to develop new antibiotics -PH effort to prevent and control are underfunded, sensitive topics to deal with people

behavior change process - CORRECT ANSWER: stage 1: awareness -knowledge is necessary, but not sufficient for change

stage 2: initiation/decision making

-may need skills to make change, lack self efficacy -training in making+ maintaining sound decisions -successfully deal with barriers to make change

stage 3: continuation

-ongoing environmental support+ physical environment changes

benefits of vaccines - CORRECT ANSWER: herd immunity, concept of protecting a

community against certain diseases by having a high % of community population immunized -must have low cost, incentives for doctors and patients 2 / 3

-must understand where vaccines wear off, vary on effectiveness, constant research and development

birth control access in developing nations - CORRECT ANSWER: problem is magnified in poorer countries, 82% of unintended pregnancies -women of reproductive age die from illegal abortions, economics/personal freedom issue because women cannot choose their own life

-main focus groups: ages 10-19, those over 40

risk factor: poverty, biggest risk factor for infant mortality

-the age at which women become pregnant and the time between births can be controlled -main barrier= access, stigma against birth control and conservative beliefs

-CDC: reproductive health division, improve knowledge and services

-UNFPA: contraceptives to populations in need, gather data

characteristics of the agent - CORRECT ANSWER: -infectivity: ability to infect

-immunogenicity: likelihood of triggering an immune response

-pathogenicity: ability to cause disease

-virulence: ability to cause death

-antigenic stability: long term immunity

-survival: some can survive outside of the body

communicable disease - CORRECT ANSWER: a disease that is spread from one host

to another, does not have the same meaning as infectious

-not all infectious diseases are communicable: infected cuts, tetanus, Lyme's

community based health promotion - CORRECT ANSWER: comprehensive, long term

with multiple approaches -influences cultural norms, enhancing environmental support

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