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Question: PHH.2
"Life or Death is a Political Decision”. Which
conference came up with this slogan?
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, noticed parasites in
blood of a malaria patient for the first time. When
was that?
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Question: PHH.4
Effectiveness, efficiency, acceptability, access,
equity and relevance are six dimensions of the
quality of care. Who proposed this?
In which year did WHO launch the first proposal for
worldwide malaria eradication, at the World Health
Assembly?
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Question: PHH.6
In which year was the Global Fund to fight the
world’s most devastating diseases (AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria) established?
Leprosy is a public health problem when its
prevalence is more than …
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Question: PHH.7
Question: PHH.8
What is the name of the German scientist who was
awarded with the Nobel Price for establishing causal
relationship between HPV and cervical cancer?
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
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Any year between 1875-1885
(6 November 1880)
ICPD (Ottawa, 2002)
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Question: PHH.4
Question: PHH.3
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1955
Maxwell
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Question: PHH.5
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1 per 10,000
2002
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Question: PHH.7
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Any year between 1961-1969
(mid 1960s)
(Harald) zur Hausen
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Question: PHH.9
Question: PHH.10
Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by …
In 1905 Robert Koch received the Nobel Price for the
discovery of TB bacilli. In which year did he discover
TB bacilli?
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Question: PHH.12
The Alma Ata Declaration was adopted at the
International Conference on Primary Health Care in
which year?
NRR is the best indicator to measure the
replacement of females in a population. What does
the abbreviation NRR stand for?
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Question: PHH.14
The life expectancy rate in absence of chronic
disease and disability is the most commonly used
indicator for …
In the 19th century, the spread of cholera was
proven to be through contaminated water. Who
proved this?
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Question: PHH.16
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?
What % of the development budgets was pledged by
the parliamentarians during the Ottawa conference
to save lives?
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Question: PHH.9
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Any year between 1877-1887
(1882)
(Alexander) Fleming
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Question: PHH.11
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Net Reproduction Rate
1978 (September)
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Question: PHH.13
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(John) Snow
The quality of life
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Question: PHH.15
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Up to 10%
1998
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Question: PHH.17
Question: PHH.18
What is the best indicator for monitoring the impact
of Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control programme?
What is the optimum recommended (healthy) floor
space (in a living place) per an adult individual?
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Question: PHH.19
Question: PHH.20
What percentage of the Gross National Product
should the governments spend on health,
recommended by the Alma Ata Declaration?
When did the Obama administration end "global gag
rule" that restricted family planning assistance
overseas to provide abortions/abortion referrals?
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Question: PHH.22
When did the WHO declare TB as a global health
emergency?
When is the World Health Day?
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Question: PHH.23
Question: PHH.24
When was the World Health Organization
established?
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
Question: PHH.17
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50-100 sq. ft. (4,65-9,29 sq. mtr.)
Neonatal hypo-thyroidism
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Question: PHH.20
Question: PHH.19
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(January 23) 2009
At least 5%
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Question: PHH.21
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7th of April
1993
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Question: PHH.24
Question: PHH.23
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Framingham heart study
1948 (7 April)
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Question: PHH.25
Question: PHH.26
Which of the Millennium Development Goals aims at
improving maternal health?
Who developed an oral vaccine containing a live
attenuated virus against poliomyelitis?
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Question: PHH.28
Who discovered that malaria parasite is transmitted
by mosquito?
In which year was it discovered that the malaria
parasite is transmitted by mosquito?
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Question: PHH.30
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?
Who is considered to be the father of modern
epidemiology?
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Question: PHH.32
Which two organizations launched the "3 by 5"
initiative and in which year?
Through which foundation did Microsoft contribute to
health worldwide?
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Question: PHH.25
Answer:
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(Albert) Sabin
MDG 5
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Question: PHH.27
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Any year between 1892-1902
(August 1897)
(Ronald) Ross
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Question: PHH.30
Question: PHH.29
Answer:
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(John) Snow
(Avedis) Donabedian
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Question: PHH.32
Question: PHH.31
Answer:
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Bill and Melinda Gates foundation
UNAIDS and WHO
2003
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Question: PHH.33
Question: PHH.34
The second richest man on earth, made the largest
charitable donation in history, what is his name?
Who defined public health in 1920 as the art of
preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting
health through organized efforts and informed
choices?
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Question: PHH.36
The International Health Regulations were first
established in 1969. What disease outbreak
facilitated change to the 2005 revision?
Which three diseases were included in the
International Health Regulations from 1969?
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Question: PHH.38
True or false? The international Health Regulations
of 2005 were signed by all WHO member states.
Which alliance, created in 1999, aims at improving
child health in the poorest countries by extending
the reach of the EPI?
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Question: PHH.40
What does mHealth mean?
When was the first international conference on
Primary Health Care?
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Question: PHH.34
Question: PHH.33
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(Charles-Edward Amory) Winslow
(Warren) Buffet
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Question: PHH.36
Question: PHH.35
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1. Cholera
2. Yellow Fever
3. Plague
SARS
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Question: PHH.38
Question: PHH.37
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GAVI
True
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Question: PHH.40
Question: PHH.39
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1978 (Alma Ata, Kazakhstan)
Using mobile phones to improve health
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Question: PHH.41
Question: PHH.42
Which 3 countries started producing generic ARVs
first?
Which study among African-Americans led to
guidance on the protection of human subjects in
research?
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Question: PHH.44
Who described the epidemiological transition?
When did the last natural case of smallpox occur?
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Question: PHH.46
Where did the last natural case of smallpox occur?
In which 2 countries does a stock of smallpox virus
exist (2008)?
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Question: PHH.47
Question: PHH.48
Why did Christiaan Eijkman receive the Nobel Prize
in 1929?
Which disease has been completely eradicated?
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Question: PHH.42
Question: PHH.41
Answer:
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Tuskegee trial
1. South Africa
2. Brazil
3. India
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Question: PHH.43
Answer:
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1977
(Abdel) Omran
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Question: PHH.46
Question: PHH.45
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1. Russia (at the Russian State Centre on Virology
and Biotech-nology)
2. USA (at CDC)
Somalia
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Question: PHH.48
Question: PHH.47
Answer:
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Smallpox
For the discovery of the cure for beriberi
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Question: PHH.49
Question: PHH.50
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?
Equity and equality: which one refers to justice?
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Question: PHH.52
ORS has been ‘invented’ in which country?
In what year was the microscope invented?
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Question: PHH.54
By whom was the microscope invented?
Who is the current president of the WHO?
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Question: PHH.55
Question: PHH.56
When was Holland declared officially malaria free by
the WHO?
Name one of the two countries that started
experimenting on National Pharmaceutical Policies
(NPPs)?
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Question: PHH.49
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Equity
UK
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Question: PHH.52
Question: PHH.51
Answer:
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Any year between 1575-1625
(1595)
Bangladesh
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Question: PHH.54
Question: PHH.53
Answer:
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(Margaret) Chan
(Zacharias) Jansen
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Question: PHH.56
Question: PHH.55
Answer:
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1. Chile OR
2. Sri Lanka
1970
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Question: PHH.57
Question: PHH.58
Who used ‘bioterrorism’ the first?
When was it possible to make dried milk
commercially, for the first time?
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Question: PHH.59
Question: PHH.60
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
Dimitri Iosifovich Ivanovski and Marinus Beijerinck
experiment resulted to the discovery of a plant virus
called …
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Question: PHH.62
A conference organized by the WHO and European
Commission on counteracting obesity was held in
Turkey. When was this?
What does HEPA Europe stands for?
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Question: PHH.64
Who is considered the father of modern medicine?
Who in public health history defined health as a
state of thriving (eudaimonia)?
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Question: PHH.57
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Any year between 1822-1842
(1832)
The Romans
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Question: PHH.60
Question: PHH.59
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Tobacco mosaic virus
A;
Sir Peter Brian Medawar
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Question: PHH.62
Question: PHH.61
Answer:
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European network for the promotion of Health
Enhancing Physical Activity
2006
(Istanbul, 15-17 November 2006)
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Question: PHH.64
Question: PHH.63
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Aristotle
Hippocrates