PUBLIC HEALTH HISTORY
Question: .1 "Life or Death is a Political Decision”. Which conference came up with this slogan?
Answer: ICPD (Ottawa, 2002)
Question: .2 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, noticed parasites in blood of a malaria patient for the first time. When was that?
Answer: Any year between 1875-1885 (6 November 1880)
Question: .3 Effectiveness, efficiency, acceptability, access, equity and relevance are six dimensions of the quality of care. Who proposed this?
Answer: Maxwell
Question: .4 In which year did WHO launch the first proposal for worldwide malaria eradication, at the World Health Assembly?
Answer: 1955
Question: .5 In which year was the Global Fund to fight the world’s most devastating diseases (AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) established?
Answer: 2002
Question: .6 Leprosy is a public health problem when its prevalence is more than …
Answer: 1 per 10,000
Question: .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?
Answer: (Harald) zur Hausen
Question: .8 ORS is claimed as one of the "the greatest medical discovery of the 20th century”. When was it discovered?
Answer: Any year between 1961-1969 (mid 1960s)
Question: .9 Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by …
Answer: (Alexander) Fleming
Question: .10 In 1905 Robert Koch received the Nobel Price for the discovery of TB bacilli. In which year did he discover TB bacilli?
Answer: Any year between 1877-1887 (1882)
Question: .11 The Alma Ata Declaration was adopted at the International Conference on Primary Health Care in which year?
Answer: 1978 (September)
Question: .12 NRR is the best indicator to measure the replacement of females in a population. What does the abbreviation NRR stand for?
Answer: Net Reproduction Rate
Question: .13 The life expectancy rate in absence of chronic disease and disability is the most commonly used indicator for …
Answer: The quality of life
Question: .14 In the 19th century, the spread of cholera was proven to be through contaminated water. Who proved this?
Answer: (John) Snow
Question: .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?
Answer: 1998
Question: .16 What % of the development budgets was pledged by the parliamentarians during the Ottawa conference to save lives?
Answer: Up to 10%
Question: .17 What is the best indicator for monitoring the impact of Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control programme?
Answer: Neonatal hypo-thyroidism
Question: .18 What is the optimum recommended (healthy) floor space (in a living place) per an adult individual?
Answer: 50-100 sq. ft. (4,65-9,29 sq. mtr.)
Question: .19 What percentage of the Gross National Product should the governments spend on health, recommended by the Alma Ata Declaration?
Answer: At least 5%
Question: .20 When did the Obama administration end "global gag rule" that restricted family planning assistance overseas to provide abortions/abortion referrals?
Answer: (January 23) 2009
Question: .21 When did the WHO declare TB as a global health emergency?
Answer: 1993
Question: .22 When is the World Health Day?
Answer: 7th of April
Question: .23 When was the World Health Organization established?
Answer: 1948 (7 April)
Question: .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?
Answer: Framingham heart study
Question: .25 Which of the Millennium Development Goals aims at improving maternal health?
Answer: MDG 5
Question: .26 Who developed an oral vaccine containing a live attenuated virus against poliomyelitis?
Answer: (Albert) Sabin
Question: .27 Who discovered that malaria parasite is transmitted by mosquito?
Answer: (Ronald) Ross
Question: .28 In which year was it discovered that the malaria parasite is transmitted by mosquito?
Answer: Any year between 1892-1902 (August 1897)
Question: .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?
Answer: (Avedis) Donabedian
Question: .30 Who is considered to be the father of modern epidemiology?
Answer: (John) Snow
Question: .31 Which two organizations launched the "3 by 5" initiative and in which year?
Answer: UNAIDS and WHO 2003
Question: .32 Through which foundation did Microsoft contribute to health worldwide?
Answer: Bill and Melinda Gates foundation
Question: .33 The second richest man on earth, made the largest charitable donation in history, what is his name?
Answer: (Warren) Buffet
Question: .34 Who defined public health in 1920 as the art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices?
Answer: (Charles-Edward Amory) Winslow
Question: .35 The International Health Regulations were first established in 1969. What disease outbreak facilitated change to the 2005 revision?
Answer: SARS
Question: .36 Which three diseases were included in the International Health Regulations from 1969?
Answer: 1. Cholera 2. Yellow Fever 3. Plague
Question: .37 True or false? The international Health Regulations of 2005 were signed by all WHO member states.
Answer: True
Question: .38 Which alliance, created in 1999, aims at improving child health in the poorest countries by extending the reach of the EPI?
Answer: GAVI
Question: .39 What does mHealth mean?
Answer: Using mobile phones to improve health
Question: .40 When was the first international conference on Primary Health Care?
Answer: 1978 (Alma Ata, Kazakhstan)
Question: .41 Which 3 countries started producing generic ARVs first?
Answer:
1. South Africa
2. Brazil
3. India
Question: .42 Which study among African-Americans led to guidance on the protection of human subjects in research?
Answer: Tuskegee trial
Question: .43 Who described the epidemiological transition?
Answer: (Abdel) Omran
Question: .44 When did the last natural case of smallpox occur?
Answer: 1977
Question: .45 Where did the last natural case of smallpox occur?
Answer: Somalia
Question: .46 In which 2 countries does a stock of smallpox virus exist (2008)?
Answer:
1. Russia (at the Russian State Centre on Virology and Biotech-nology)
2. USA (at CDC)
Question: .47 Why did Christiaan Eijkman receive the Nobel Prize in 1929?
Answer: For the discovery of the cure for beriberi
Question: .48 Which disease has been completely eradicated?
Answer: Smallpox
Question:.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?
Answer: UK
Question: .50 Equity and equality: which one refers to justice?
Answer: Equity
Question: .51 ORS has been ‘invented’ in which country?
Answer: Bangladesh
Question: .52 In what year was the microscope invented?
Answer: Any year between 1575-1625 (1595)
Question: .53 By whom was the microscope invented?
Answer: (Zacharias) Jansen
Question: .54 Who is the current president of the WHO?
Answer: Tedros Adhanom, (former health minister and foreign minister of Ethiopia)
Question: .55 When was Holland declared officially malaria free by the WHO?
Answer: 1970
Question: .56 Name one of the two countries that started experimenting on National Pharmaceutical Policies (NPPs)?
Answer:
1. Chile OR
2. Sri Lanka
Question: .57 Who used ‘bioterrorism’ the first?
Answer: The Romans
Question: .58 When was it possible to make dried milk commercially, for the first time?
Answer: Any year between 1822-1842 (1832)
Question: .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
Answer: A; Sir Peter Brian Medawar
Question: .60 Dimitri Iosifovich Ivanovski and Marinus Beijerinck experiment resulted to the discovery of a plant virus called …
Answer: Tobacco mosaic virus
Question: .61 A conference organized by the WHO and European Commission on counteracting obesity was held in Turkey. When was this?
Answer: 2006 (Istanbul, 15-17 November 2006)
Question: .62 What does HEPA Europe stands for?
Answer: European network for the promotion of Health Enhancing Physical Activity
Question: .63 Who is considered the father of modern medicine?
Answer: Hippocrates
Question: .64 Who in public health history defined health as a state of thriving (eudaimonia)?
Answer: Aristotle
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