Lesson 3.2.2

3.2.2 Is there a link between disease and levels of economic development? Quiz: OCR Geography, Unit 6

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The 20 questions

  1. What happens to communicable disease prevalence as standard of living and development rise in a country?

    • It increases
    • It fluctuates wildly
    • It stays constant
    • It decreases

  2. What term describes non-communicable diseases associated with high economic development and longer life expectancy?

    • Diseases of poverty
    • Vectored diseases
    • Diseases of affluence
    • Zoonotic diseases

  3. What term describes communicable diseases predominantly occurring in low-income countries due to poor sanitation?

    • Diseases of affluence
    • Genetic disorders
    • Degenerative diseases
    • Diseases of poverty

  4. Which model explains the shift from infectious diseases to non-communicable degenerative diseases as countries develop?

    • Demographic transition model
    • Rostow development model
    • Burgess concentric model
    • Epidemiological transition model

  5. Long-term exposure to high fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) directly increases the incidence of which cancer?

    • Lung cancer
    • Skin cancer
    • Bone cancer
    • Liver cancer

  6. Which national policy is used to reduce urban air pollution and associated cancer risks?

    • Subsidising healthcare
    • Mandatory vaccination
    • Water fluoridation
    • Clean Air Acts

  7. Malaria transmission in tropical EDCs or LIDCs depends directly on which physical vector?

    • Tsetse flies
    • Blackflies
    • Aedes mosquitoes
    • Anopheles mosquitoes

  8. How does high communicable disease prevalence like malaria primarily lower economic output in LIDCs?

    • Higher birth rates
    • Reduced workforce productivity
    • Increased export tariffs
    • Lower land prices

  9. Which intervention is a direct vector control strategy used to prevent malaria transmission?

    • Chemotherapy treatment
    • Insecticide-treated bed nets
    • Oral rehydration salts
    • Water fluoridation

  10. Which lifestyle factor is a major cause of non-communicable cardiovascular disease in Advanced Countries?

    • Vector exposure
    • Lack of sanitation
    • Contaminated water
    • High-fat diets

  11. What is a major economic burden on AC governments resulting from high non-communicable disease prevalence?

    • Healthcare service costs
    • Vector eradication costs
    • Quarantine facility building
    • Famine relief spending

  12. Which direct government policy aims to reduce cardiovascular disease incidence by limiting unhealthy dietary consumption?

    • Sugar taxation
    • Mosquito spraying
    • Mass vaccination
    • Water chlorination

  13. Which key role does the World Health Organization perform to predict and track global disease outbreaks?

    • Direct hospital construction
    • Pharmaceutical manufacturing
    • Global disease surveillance
    • Local waste collection

  14. Provision of clean drinking water and improved sanitation infrastructure primarily targets which disease category?

    • Non-communicable diseases
    • Water-borne communicable diseases
    • Degenerative diseases
    • Genetic disorders

  15. In which stage of Omran's epidemiological transition model do degenerative diseases cause the most deaths?

    • Stage 5
    • Stage 1
    • Stage 3
    • Stage 2

  16. Exposure to industrial ambient air pollution is linked to increased risk of which cancer besides lung cancer?

    • Stomach cancer
    • Brain cancer
    • Thyroid cancer
    • Bladder cancer

  17. Which measure represents an indirect strategy to reduce communicable disease rates in low-income regions?

    • Improving literacy rates
    • Indoor residual spraying
    • Providing bed nets
    • Distributing antimalarial drugs

  18. Which policy is an indirect government strategy to reduce non-communicable diseases like type 2 diabetes?

    • Banning sugar imports
    • Mandatory surgery
    • Subsidising insulin prescriptions
    • Exercise public campaigns

  19. How does increased global air travel directly impact the spread of communicable infectious diseases?

    • Increased natural immunity
    • Elimination of vectors
    • Lower pathogen mutation
    • Faster disease diffusion

  20. What overall demographic change accompanies a country's transition from communicable to non-communicable disease dominance?

    • Increasing life expectancy
    • Static life expectancy
    • Falling median age
    • Decreasing life expectancy

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