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 (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are neglected tropical diseases related to?

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

What does demography study?

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

What is malnutrition?

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

What is food security dependent on?

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

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

<p>Famine occurs (D)</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 (D)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>False (B)</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' (A)</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 (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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