GLOBAL ACTIVE LEARNING GUIDE QUESTIONS NURS 235: Global Health and Nutrition Question Set # 1 Skolnik Chapters 1,2 & 3 Instructions: Complete the active learning guide questions as you work through the chapter content Answer the following questions to help prepare for the Global Country Paper Assignment and Global Health Quizzes. If you have questions are or are unsure about your answers, you may email your instructor for clarification. Note: The Active Learning Guide provides a general outline of topics covered in the indicated chapters. it is not inclusive of all information needed for exams. You are responsible for all content in readings and activities throughout the modules. Question Set # 1: Skolnik Chapters 1,2 & 3 1. How might one define health, public health, and global health? 2. What are some examples of public health activities? 3. What are some examples of global health issues? 4. What were some of the keys to the eradication of smallpox? 5. What is meant by the term, “determinants of health”? 6. Why are the social determinants of health considered to be so important? 7. Which determinants of health are amenable to relatively shorter-term actions? Which require longer-term actions? 8. How do we measure health status? What are key health gap and health expectancy measures? 9. For your selected country, what population group has the best health indicators and why? 10. For your selected country, what population group has the worst health status and why? 11. Define HALE. What is the HALE of your selected country? 12. Define DALY. What is the DALY of your selected country? 13. What is the leading cause of death by age in your selected country for all people? For children under 5? For children ages 5-14? Ages 15- 49? Age 50 and older? 14. What are the three most important health indicators in your selected country? In your assigned region? 15. What are the top 3 leading causes of death and DALYs for low-income, lower middleincome, upper-middle income and high-income countries? What factors contribute to these similarities or differences? What are leading causes of death for children in these countries grouped by income?
