Deck 16: Future Trends

Question 1

The WHO established the Emerging Diseases Clinical Assessment and Response Network (EDCARN) in 2015 for what purpose?

Answer 1

To proactively address infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics to enhance global health security and reduce preventable morbidity and mortality

Question 2

WHO officials in recent years have advocated a shift from a focus on known outbreaks to anticipation of unknown ones.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

EDCARN officials have begun to stress the solely biomedical aspects of outbreak control efforts.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

An important area of EDCARN's efforts is risk communication.

Question 5

9/11 forever altered the landscape of infectious disease preparedness.

Question 6

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) supervises overall access and management of antibiotics, vaccines, antivirals, and antitoxins in what are known as ___________________?

Question 7

The National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittees (NBASs) do what?

Question 8

Relatively few medical schools include emergency preparedness in their curricula.

Question 9

The WHO's GOARN stands for Global Network and Alert Response Network.

Question 10

In 1992, the UN defined climate change as what?

Question 11

WHO officials have predicted that between 2030 and 2050 climate change will cause roughly how many deaths?

A) 100,000
B) A quarter million
C) A half million
D) Three-quarters of a million
E) > a million

Question 12

At present more than half of the world's population lives within how many kilometers from an ocean?

A) 60 km
B) 70 km
C) 80 km
D) 90 km
E) 100 km

Question 13

The 2003 European heatwave left > 80, 000 excess deaths in its wake.

Question 14

The UN Refugee Convention (UNRC) of 1951 does not mention climate change and refugee status.

Question 15

UNHCR has predicted that climate change may force as many as ______________ people to resettle to more temperate regions by the mid-21st century.

A) 50 million
B) 100 million
C) 150 million
C) 200 million
D) 250 million