public health history

Public health history

Question: PHH.1

"Life or Death is a Political Decision”. Which conference came up with this slogan?


Question: PHH.2

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, noticed parasites in blood of a malaria patient for the first time. When was that?


Question: PHH.3

Effectiveness, efficiency, acceptability, access, equity and relevance are six dimensions of the quality of care. Who proposed this?


Question: PHH.4

In which year did WHO launch the first proposal for worldwide malaria eradication, at the World Health Assembly?


Question: PHH.5

In which year was the Global Fund to fight the world’s most devastating diseases (AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) established?


Question: PHH.6

Leprosy is a public health problem when its prevalence is more than …


Question: PHH.7

What is the name of the German scientist who was awarded with the Nobel Price for establishing causal relationship between HPV and cervical cancer?


Question: PHH.8

ORS is claimed as one of the "the greatest medical discovery of the 20th century”. When was it discovered?

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Question: PHH.2

Answer:

Any year between 1875-1885 (6 November 1880)


Question: PHH.1

Answer:

ICPD (Ottawa, 2002)


Question: PHH.4

Answer:

1955


Question: PHH.3

Answer:

Maxwell


Question: PHH.6

Answer:

1 per 10,000


Question: PHH.5

Answer:

2002


Question: PHH.8

Answer:

Any year between 1961-1969 (mid 1960s)


Question: PHH.7

Answer:

(Harald) zur Hausen


Question: PHH.9

Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by …


Question: PHH.10

In 1905 Robert Koch received the Nobel Price for the discovery of TB bacilli. In which year did he discover TB bacilli?


Question: PHH.11

The Alma Ata Declaration was adopted at the International Conference on Primary Health Care in which year?


Question: PHH.12

NRR is the best indicator to measure the replacement of females in a population. What does the abbreviation NRR stand for?


Question: PHH.13

The life expectancy rate in absence of chronic disease and disability is the most commonly used indicator for …


Question: PHH.14

In the 19th century, the spread of cholera was proven to be through contaminated water. Who proved this?


Question: PHH.15

The Stop TB Initiative/Partnership, also known as a World Free of TB, is established to eliminate TB as a public health problem. In which year was this established?


Question: PHH.16

What % of the development budgets was pledged by the parliamentarians during the Ottawa conference to save lives?

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Question: PHH.10

Answer:

Any year between 1877-1887 (1882)


Question: PHH.9

Answer:

(Alexander) Fleming


Question: PHH.12

Answer:

Net Reproduction Rate


Question: PHH.11

Answer:

1978 (September)


Question: PHH.14

Answer:

(John) Snow


Question: PHH.13

Answer:

The quality of life


Question: PHH.16

Answer:

Up to 10%


Question: PHH.15

Answer:

1998


Question: PHH.17

What is the best indicator for monitoring the impact of Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control programme?


Question: PHH.18

What is the optimum recommended (healthy) floor space (in a living place) per an adult individual?


Question: PHH.19

What percentage of the Gross National Product should the governments spend on health, recommended by the Alma Ata Declaration?


Question: PHH.20

When did the Obama administration end "global gag rule" that restricted family planning assistance overseas to provide abortions/abortion referrals?


Question: PHH.21

When did the WHO declare TB as a global health emergency?


Question: PHH.22

When is the World Health Day?


Question: PHH.23

When was the World Health Organization established?


Question: PHH.24

The largest prospective observational study conducted so far started in 1948, studying the epidemiology of hypertensive or arteriosclerotic cardiovascular diseases. What is the name of this study?

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Question: PHH.18

Answer:

50-100 sq. ft. (4,65-9,29 sq. mtr.)


Question: PHH.17

Answer:

Neonatal hypo-thyroidism


Question: PHH.20

Answer:

(January 23) 2009


Question: PHH.19

Answer:

At least 5%


Question: PHH.22

Answer:

7th of April


Question: PHH.21

Answer:

1993


Question: PHH.24

Answer:

Framingham heart study


Question: PHH.23

Answer:

1948 (7 April)


Question: PHH.25

Which of the Millennium Development Goals aims at improving maternal health?


Question: PHH.26

Who developed an oral vaccine containing a live attenuated virus against poliomyelitis?


Question: PHH.27

Who discovered that malaria parasite is transmitted by mosquito?


Question: PHH.28

In which year was it discovered that the malaria parasite is transmitted by mosquito?


Question: PHH.29

He is a great Public Health professor, who focused on quality improvement and health service research. In his life he wrote 8 books and 50 peer-reviewed articles, he died in 2000, what is his name?


Question: PHH.30

Who is considered to be the father of modern epidemiology?


Question: PHH.31

Which two organizations launched the "3 by 5" initiative and in which year?


Question: PHH.32

Through which foundation did Microsoft contribute to health worldwide?

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Question: PHH.26

Answer:

(Albert) Sabin


Question: PHH.25

Answer:

MDG 5


Question: PHH.28

Answer:

Any year between 1892-1902 (August 1897)


Question: PHH.27

Answer:

(Ronald) Ross


Question: PHH.30

Answer:

(John) Snow


Question: PHH.29

Answer:

(Avedis) Donabedian


Question: PHH.32

Answer:

Bill and Melinda Gates foundation


Question: PHH.31

Answer:

UNAIDS and WHO 2003


Question: PHH.33

The second richest man on earth, made the largest charitable donation in history, what is his name?


Question: PHH.34

Who defined public health in 1920 as the art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices?


Question: PHH.35

The International Health Regulations were first established in 1969. What disease outbreak facilitated change to the 2005 revision?


Question: PHH.36

Which three diseases were included in the International Health Regulations from 1969?


Question: PHH.37

True or false? The international Health Regulations of 2005 were signed by all WHO member states.


Question: PHH.38

Which alliance, created in 1999, aims at improving child health in the poorest countries by extending the reach of the EPI?


Question: PHH.39

What does mHealth mean?


Question: PHH.40

When was the first international conference on Primary Health Care?

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Question: PHH.34

Answer:

(Charles-Edward Amory) Winslow


Question: PHH.33

Answer:

(Warren) Buffet


Question: PHH.36

Answer:

1. Cholera 2. Yellow Fever 3. Plague


Question: PHH.35

Answer:

SARS


Question: PHH.38

Answer:

GAVI


Question: PHH.37

Answer:

True


Question: PHH.40

Answer:

1978 (Alma Ata, Kazakhstan)


Question: PHH.39

Answer:

Using mobile phones to improve health


Question: PHH.41

Which 3 countries started producing generic ARVs first?


Question: PHH.42

Which study among African-Americans led to guidance on the protection of human subjects in research?


Question: PHH.43

Who described the epidemiological transition?


Question: PHH.44

When did the last natural case of smallpox occur?


Question: PHH.45

Where did the last natural case of smallpox occur?


Question: PHH.46

In which 2 countries does a stock of smallpox virus exist (2008)?


Question: PHH.47

Why did Christiaan Eijkman receive the Nobel Prize in 1929?


Question: PHH.48

Which disease has been completely eradicated?

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Question: PHH.42

Answer:

Tuskegee trial


Question: PHH.41

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1. South Africa 2. Brazil 3. India


Question: PHH.44

Answer:

1977


Question: PHH.43

Answer:

(Abdel) Omran


Question: PHH.46

Answer:

1. Russia (at the Russian State Centre on Virology and Biotech-nology) 2. USA (at CDC)


Question: PHH.45

Answer:

Somalia


Question: PHH.48

Answer:

Smallpox


Question: PHH.47

Answer:

For the discovery of the cure for beriberi


Question: PHH.49

The Demographic Transition Model (DTM) is a model that is used to represent the process a country makes, from pre-industrial to an industrialized economy. On which country is the DTM based?


Question: PHH.50

Equity and equality: which one refers to justice?


Question: PHH.51

ORS has been ‘invented’ in which country?


Question: PHH.52

In what year was the microscope invented?


Question: PHH.53

By whom was the microscope invented?


Question: PHH.54

Who is the current president of the WHO?


Question: PHH.55

When was Holland declared officially malaria free by the WHO?


Question: PHH.56

Name one of the two countries that started experimenting on National Pharmaceutical Policies (NPPs)?

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Question: PHH.50

Answer:

Equity


Question: PHH.49

Answer:

UK


Question: PHH.52

Answer:



Question: PHH.51

Answer:

Bangladesh


Question: PHH.54

Answer:

(Margaret) Chan


Question: PHH.53

Answer:

(Zacharias) Jansen


Question: PHH.56

Answer:

1. Chile OR 2. Sri Lanka


Question: PHH.55

Answer:

1970


Question: PHH.57

Who used ‘bioterrorism’ the first?


Question: PHH.58

When was it possible to make dried milk commercially, for the first time?


Question: PHH.59

Who is the biologist who dealt with skin grafts required after burns, and for this received the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology in 1960? A: Sir Peter Brian Medawar B: Sir Peter Mansfield


Question: PHH.60

Dimitri Iosifovich Ivanovski and Marinus Beijerinck experiment resulted to the discovery of a plant virus called …


Question: PHH.61

A conference organized by the WHO and European Commission on counteracting obesity was held in Turkey. When was this?


Question: PHH.62

What does HEPA Europe stands for?


Question: PHH.63

Who is considered the father of modern medicine?


Question: PHH.64

Who in public health history defined health as a state of thriving (eudaimonia)?

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Question: PHH.57

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The Romans


Question: PHH.60

Answer:

Tobacco mosaic virus


Question: PHH.59

Answer:

A; Sir Peter Brian Medawar


Question: PHH.62

Answer:

European network for the promotion of Health Enhancing Physical Activity


Question: PHH.61

Answer:

2006 (Istanbul, 15-17 November 2006)


Question: PHH.64

Answer:

Aristotle


Question: PHH.63

Answer:

Hippocrates

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