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1
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what is global health

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Health issues and concerns that transcend nat’l boundaries, best addressed by cooperative actions and solutions
Encompasses the behavioral and environmental risk fxrs of a community, influenced by politics, economics and culture

2
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what are determinants of health

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factors that affect outcomes of health status (physical environment, social environment, health behaviors and individual health; access to health services and health policies/interventions

3
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what is an epidemiologic transition

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high and fluctuating mortality due to poor health, epidemics and famine

4
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what is demographic transitions

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High fertility and mortality, results in slow population growth
Improvement in hygiene/nutrition, decreased infectious disease
Decline in mortality and fertility
Increase proportion of elderly

5
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what are risk fxrs

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personal habits/behaviors/environmental conditions, inborn or inherited, known to affect health-related cond.

6
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what is global burden of disease

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risks to health/outcomes in populations/social settings

7
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risk fxrs for global burden of disease

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child/maternal malnutrition
addictive substances
environment
sex/reproductive health

8
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millennium development goals

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Eradicate poverty/hunger
Achieve primary education
Promote gender equality
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Ensure environmental stability
9
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healthcare migration increases the burden to care for a society, resulting in the need to shift tasks to nurses and community health workers, T or F

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True