18 Oct The United States and other countries are seeing a strong push for evidence-based practice in health care.

The United States and other countries are seeing a strong push for evidence-based practice in health care. Evidence-based medicine is meant to:

 

 a.           Ensure better and maintain acceptable medical outcomes through the adherence to specific treatment and practice guidelines

 

 b.           Ensure better and more equitable medical outcomes through the adherence to specific treatment and practice guidelines

 

 c.            Ensure better and more equitable medical outcomes through the creative application of specific treatment and practice guidelines

 

 d.           None of these is correct.

 

 QUESTION 2 The largest funding source for global health is:

 

 a.           Governments

 

 b.           Nongovernmental organizations

 

c.             World Bank and other multilateral financial institutions

 

 d.           Donors such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

 

 e.           Clinton Global Initiative

 

QUESTION 3       Reasons to address global health include:

 

a.            Humanitarian

 

b.            Equity

 

c.             Direct impact on individuals and countries

 

d.            Attainability

 

e.            Universality

 

f.             All of these are correct.

 

g.            Only a, c, and e

 

QUESTION 4       The most commonly cited and most focused-on global diseases today include:

 

a.            HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B, and malaria

 

b.            HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and SARS

 

c.             HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria

 

d.            None of these is correct.

 

QUESTION 5       One major challenge of bioterrorism preparedness is the need for public health agencies to build partnerships and relationships with communities and state and local governments to ensure future emergency responses will be effective on all levels.

 

  True

 

  False