HAS2201: Global Health Dilemmas Quiz
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What is the main focus of Maternal and Child Health (MCH)?

  • Advocating for reproductive rights
  • Preventing and treating sexually transmitted infections in women
  • Promoting fertility and infertility treatments
  • Improving the health of mothers, infants, and children under five years old (correct)

    • Which of the following is NOT included in issues related to reproductive health?

  • Promoting fertility treatments (correct)
  • Pregnancy and childbirth
  • Prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections
  • Contraception

    • What does reproductive rights refer to?

  • The promotion of abortion as a contraceptive method
  • The encouragement of early marriage for women
  • The freedom to decide how many children one wants without interference (correct)
  • Government's control over population growth

    • Which area does the course focus on in relation to public health practice?

    <p>Improving maternal and child health</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are neglected tropical diseases related to?

    <p>Reproductive health issues</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does demography study?

    <p>The size and composition of human populations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the total fertility rate (TFR)?

    <p>The average number of children born to the typical woman</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is malnutrition?

    <p>Suboptimal nutritional status arising from deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in nutrient intake</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is food security dependent on?

    <p>Physical availability, economic affordability, and cultural acceptability of food</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens when a large proportion of a population has very low food security?

    <p>Famine occurs</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the term 'food system' refer to?

    <p>The entire process of growing or producing food, processing and packaging food, distributing and selling food, and preparing and consuming food</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is nutrition transition characterized by?

    <p>A shift from having undernutrition and nutrient deficiencies to having overweight and obesity as the dominant nutritional disorders</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Famines are partially attributable to demographics and environmental factors' - This statement is:

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Food insecurity affects households in countries across the income spectrum' - This statement is:

    <p>'Food insecurity affects households in countries across the income spectrum'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Food security is about the distribution and affordability of food as much as it is about food production' - This statement is:

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

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