Chapter 2
Conceptual Learning
1. Review examples of religious connotations in the earliest records of treatment for disease.
2. Categorize the new pandemic threats to global health security for the year 2000 and beyond.
3. List and analyze three reasons why countries that have discovered cures cannot solve communicable disease transmissions.
4. Analyze the theory behind the method of quarantine.
5. Construct a time line of the era of 1800–1900, and examine the bacteriological and epidemiological developments.
6. Explain the modern era of the 1900s, and focus on the reason for the examination of lifestyle factors as causes of diseases.
7. Examine and compare two (international, national, state, or local) laws, policies, or regulations affecting community health.
8. Briefly classify and list examples of the following health determinants: genetic determinants, physical environment, and social environment.
9. Compare and contrast the progress made during the first half of this century and that made in the second half of the century, with specific reference to personal health behaviors.
10. Discuss one new disease or epidemiological trend that is occurring within global networks, society at large, demographics, economics, and politics.
11. List three of the greatest risks to international global health today, and discuss how and why they occurred. Discuss the measures that are in place to prevent global health crises today.
12. State three of the greatest achievements in global public health, and assess why they are important today.
13. Discuss WHO’s role in global health, prevention, advocacy, and action plans.
14. Explain the relationship between smallpox, polio, and immunizations; cholera and sanitation; and the plague and quarantine.
15. Evaluate the International Health Regulations (IHR).
16. Classify and summarize the achievements of Snow, Jenner, Salk, Koch, Fleming, Pasteur, and Leeuwenhoek.
17. Discuss why surveillance efforts are also important for chronic disease prevention.
18. According to most indicators, global health progress has been made in the 21st century due to public health initiatives.Compare the value of healthy places and these public health initiatives, including medical care access and immunizations, sanitation, protection of the environment, safe living conditions, quarantine, and determination of health risks as contributors to this progress.
19. Defend the aims of global health in prevention, reoccurrence, and limiting health disparities
20. Classify the areas of environmental health, and identify how each plays a role in disease prevention efforts.
21. Trace the development of public health in the world to present day. Design a chronology of events including any significant reports, establishment of organizations, political events, external factors that influenced the pace of development, major breakthroughs and discoveries that influenced health, the role of WHO, expansion of programs, epidemiological success, and the role and importance to health education influenced by public health personnel in the field.
22. Compare the status of global health statistics to U.S. health statistics today.