Global Health priorities: Chapter 2

Globalization is

• The freedom from fear and the freedom from want that results from having economic food environmental personal and political security.

• The total amount of goods and services produced in one country by domestic and foreign owned companies.

• The process set enables countries around the world becoming more integrated and interdependent across economic political culture and other domains.

• An estimate of national development calculated from data on income, education, and life expectancy at birth.

The sustainable development goals…………..

• focus on a healthy environment.

• include a range of goals and targets that relate to health.

• are all to be achieved by 2020.

• say little about the global health.

DALYs measure…………..

• the sum of years spent in illness.

• the sum of years spent in disability.

• the sum of years lost to premature death and years spent in illness.

• the sum of years lost due to premature death and years lived with disability calculated on a weighted basis.

The leading cause of death globally for females of all ages is

• Diabetes.

• Injuries.

• Ischemic heart disease.

• Maternal death.

Which factor is expected to have the greatest impact in the next two decades on the burden of disease?

• Urbanization.

• Population aging.

• Population growth.

• Both population aging and growth.

The neonatal mortality rate is….

• the number of children under 28 days of age who die for every 1000 live births.

• the number of children under age one who die in a year.

• the number of children under 28 days of age who die for every 5000 live births.

• the number of children under age one who die for every 10,000 live births.

About Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

• There are 8 MDGs and 17 SDGs endorsed by the United Nations (UN).

• MDG are to achieved between 2015 and 2030.

• SDG ere to be achieved between 2000 nd 2015.

• All apply.