Deck 19: Intersectoral Approaches to Enabling Better Health

Question 1

Which agency of government generally "controls" the allocation of funds:

A) Health
B) Planning
C) Finance
D) The Central Bank

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Some of the indirect determinants of health include:

A) Income
B) Education
C) Socio-economic standing
D) All of these are correct

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In low-income countries the largest risk factor for DALYs among all age groups and both sexes is:

A) Child growth failure
B) Ambient particulate matter
C) High fasting plasma glucose
D) High sodium intake

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Some of the latest estimates suggest that what proportion of global deaths are associated with behavioral and environmental risk factors:

A) About 5%
B) About 10%
C) About 25%
D)About 50%

Question 5

Some factors "outside the health sector" that relate to healthy fetal and young child development include:

A) The mother's nutrition and education
B) The vaccination of the mother
C) Prenatal care for the mother
D) Access to medical care

Question 6

Which disease has another disease as a risk factor:

A) Measles
B) Hepatitis
C) Cervical cancer
D) Helminthic infection

Question 7

In most countries, which agency is responsible for implementing safe water supplies:

A) The Ministry of Health
B) The Ministry of Civil Works/Infrastructure
C) The Ministry of Finance
D) The Ministry of Environment

Question 8

In most countries, direct action to reduce outdoor air pollution from manufacturing would be led by:

A) The Ministry of Health
B) The Ministry of Finance
C) The Ministry of Industry
D) None of these are correct

Question 9

The best way to reduce tobacco consumption is:

A) Have the health sector engage in anti-smoking campaigns
B) Have the agriculture ministry reduce tobacco production
C) Have the Ministry of Finance tax cigarettes at high rates
D) Have the health ministry ban smoking among minors

Question 10

Reducing antibiotic use in animal production would probably require the cooperation of which ministries:

A) Health and finance
B) Finance and agriculture
C) Health and agriculture
D) Health and commerce

Question 11

Intrinsic determinants of health include:

A) Government policy
B) The environment
C) Genetics
D) All of these are correct

Question 12

Non-intrinsic determinants of health include

A) Sex
B) Cultural practices
C) Neither sex nor cultural practices
D) Both sex and cultural practices

Question 13

The "social determinants of health" include:

A) Age
B) Sex
C) The way people love
D) The way people live and work and the wider systems shaping the conditions of daily life

Question 14

Behavioral risk factors include:

A) Tobacco smoking
B) Unsafe water and sanitation
C) High sodium intake
D) Both tobacco smoking and high sodium intake

Question 15

Environmental risk factors include:

A) Unsafe water and sanitation
B) Household air pollution
C) Ambient particulate matter pollution
D) All of these are correct

Question 16

Strengthening a young woman's ability to negotiate safe sex may require measures such as:

A) Keeping young women in school longer
B) Ensuring young women have enough income to avoid engaging in transactional sex
C) Ensuring greater empowerment of young women
D) All of these are correct

Question 17

In a whole of government approach:

A) The health ministry is responsible for implementing all measures to improve health
B) The government works across agencies in a coordinated way to identify and address health issues
C) A few government agencies work on health
D) None of these are correct

Question 18

Health impact assessments are meant to:

A) Identify health issues
B) Identify health issues that might arise from investments across sectors and measures that can be taken to mitigate them
C) Identify investments that can be made without negative consequences for health
D)Identify the negative health consequences of road investments

Question 19

The best way to reduce excess alcohol consumption is:

A) Have the health ministry engage in health education
B) Have the education ministry teach young people not to drink
C) Have the Ministry of Finance tax alcohol at high rates
D)Have the health ministry ban sales to minors

Question 20

The Ministry of Agriculture and Industry can help to improve health by:

A) Promoting the farming and sale of "healthy foods"
B) Discouraging the production of "unhealthy foods", such as high fructose corn syrup
C) Enabling better distribution of "healthy foods"
D) All of these are correct