Deck 13: The Globalization of Disease

Question 1

Roughly _____________ of all adult deaths are caused by noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).

A) 75 percent
B) 10 percent
C) 90 percent
D) 50 percent

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Diseased populations are vulnerable to contracting other diseases due to compromised immune systems.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The bubonic plague that killed 25 million people is also known as the

A) Black Death.
B) The Plague of Justinian.
C) Yellow Plague.
D) Rat Plague.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

_____________ are organisms that can cause disease.

A) Vectors
B) Pathogens
C) Viruses
D) Microbes

Question 5

The ability to _____________ enhances the chances of human-to-human transference of a disease due to mutations.

A) revamp
B) reassort
C) differentiate
D) proliferate

Question 6

The Global Malaria Campaign

A) emphasized control and containment of the disease.
B) strengthened the health-care systems in many countries.
C) increased the use of DDT in fighting malaria.
D) drained many swamps across Africa.

Question 7

It is generally accepted that HIV evolved from ________________

A) the simian immunodeficiency virus.
B) Spanish flu.
C) pathogenic natural selection.
D) tuberculosis.

Question 8

Noncommunicable diseases cannot be considered epidemics.

Question 9

Which of the following factors has the most impact on the globalization of infectious disease?

A) Migration
B) Trade
C) Global travel and communication
D) Poverty

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT a factor that has contributed to the globalization of infectious disease?

A) Global travel
B) Prosperity
C) Modern medical practices
D) Environmental factors

Question 11

Ethnic conflicts, widespread violence, and wars have no effect on the outbreak of disease and the spread of infectious diseases.

Question 12

_____________ promotes the emergence of more virulent, resilient, resistant, and powerful disease strains.

A) Noncommunicable disease
B) Human security
C) Pathogenic natural selection
D) Intravenous drug usage

Question 13

The transfer of disease from an animal to a human is known as

A) animafilia.
B) zoonosis.
C) animalistic pathogens.
D) insnosis.

Question 14

The most lethal influenza pandemic was the __________ flu.

A) Russian
B) Tami
C) Spanish
D) avian

Question 15

Two factors that explain the reemergence of diseases thought to be eradicated are: 1)the growing resistance to governments, and 2)the devastating impact of capitalism.

Question 16

In the _____________ program, commercial sex acts are protected with the mandatory use of condoms.

A) AIDS prevention
B) safe sex
C) 100 percent condom
D) prophylactic

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT an example of an infectious disease?

A) Cholera
B) Cancer
C) Influenza
D) HIV / AIDS

Question 18

The second epidemiologic transition coincided with

A) the advent of agriculture.
B) World War I and II.
C) the Industrial Revolution.
D) the electronic age.

Question 19

_____________ security focuses on a global common and comprehensive security.

A) Worldwide
B) Human
C) Global
D) Food

Question 20

The emergence and reemergence and spread of infectious diseases helps to demonstrate both the reality and the dangers of globalization.

Question 21

Humans are infected when they come into contact with natural .

Question 22

The ____________ was named after a Roman emperor and devastated Europe around 541 CE.

Question 23

Essentially, the U.S. government adopted Uganda's program, which helped to significantly reduce the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in that country.

Question 24

______________ emerged in China's Guangdong Province in late 2002.

Question 25

, which is traveling to specific countries to participate in the local sex industry, is a potent source of infectious diseases, especially HIV/AIDS.

Question 26

Obesity is a global epidemic.

Question 27

Discuss the factors that facilitate the spread of HIV/AIDS and various efforts to deal with this pandemic.

Question 28

Pathogens (organisms capable of causing disease)have had no impact on societies.

Question 29

Epidemics are long-lasting, catastrophic, and truly global in their consequences.

Question 30

Compare domestic and global approaches to malaria and tuberculosis.

Question 31

A major breakthrough in the fight against the AIDS pandemic came in 1996, when the was founded.

Question 32

focuses on the individual as the primary object of security.

Question 33

The poorest countries are generally more vulnerable to contracting infectious diseases.

Question 34

Discuss the role of the WHO in preventing the spread of infectious diseases.

Question 35

Although epidemics generally impact populations worldwide, are long lasting, catastrophic, and truly global in their consequences.

Question 36

Discuss the causes and effects of the global obesity epidemic. How does obesity relate to the global epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)?

Question 37

Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes.

Question 38

Concerned about HIV/AIDS patients' inability to afford drugs to treat the disease, members of the World Trade Organization (WTO)ratified the in 1994.

Question 39

As early as 1851, European countries convened the in an effort to prevent the spread of infectious diseases from developing countries to Europe, primarily through travel and trade.

Question 40

Discuss how conflicts, global warming, and poverty contribute to the emergence and spread of infectious diseases.