Physiological Determinants of Global Health

Appendix A

HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE

1. What is health?
2. How do you know that you are healthy?
3. What should you do to maintain your health?
4. Is it possible to feel healthy and still be ill?
5. What is homeostasis?
   • How does our body maintain homeostasis?
6. What does homeostasis have to do with health?
7. How much does the environment affect your health?
8. Is this effect the same for all people?
   • Explain your answer.
9. Describe the ways in which you maintain your health?
10. Describe the ways in which you do not keep yourself healthy?
11. What is a healthy lifestyle?
12. How does your lifestyle (personal decisions) affect your health?
13. Do all people in our society have the same ability to maintain their health?
14. Do some people have a predisposition to disease?
15. How much does your family (your genes) have to do with your health?
16. What is a person’s genotype?
    • Explain your answer.
17. Do all people in the world have the same ability to maintain their health?
    • Explain your answer.
18. What is a disease?
19. What causes diseases?
20. Does the type and incidence of disease vary?

Disease Discussion Focus Questions

1. What is a disease?
2. What do you think causes disease?
3. What role does the environment have on diseases?
4. Do diseases change over time? Or are they always the same?
5. Which disease causes the most deaths worldwide?
6. Which disease do you consider to be the most dangerous?
7. Which disease is historically the most lethal?
8. What new (emerging) diseases are you aware of?
9. In you group list the ten most dangerous diseases.
10. Which of these diseases are communicable?
11. Which are non communicable?
12. In what parts of the world are communicable diseases most prevalent?
13. Can you propose a reason?
14. In which parts of the world are communicable diseases almost non-existent?
15. Can you propose a reason?

Video viewing questions

As you watch name the historical diseases and their dates:

1. What disease was prevalent in the 18^th /19^th century
2. What disease was prevalent in 1918?
3. What was the leading cause of death for soldiers in the First World War?
4. Where are infectious diseases still a problem?
5. Why is this so? What are the environmental reasons?
6. Name the emerging diseases.
7. Are we at risk in this country?
8. Can emerging infectious diseases threaten us?

Bacterial Lab Procedure and analysis questions located at:

https://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/Diseases/guide/pdfs/ACT3M.pdf

Genetics of Cancer Video Viewing Guide

1. How was the study conducted? How large was the sample?
2. How did researchers determine the number of cancer causing genes?
3. What is a silent mutation?
4. How many cancer-causing genes are estimated as of 2013?
5. Do we expect the number to change?
6. How many of these genes are oncogenes?
7. How many are tumor suppressor genes?
8. What is the difference between a proto-oncogene and an oncogene?
9. What is the difference between a proto-oncogene and a tumor suppressor gene?
10. What are the three areas of cellular functions that these cancerous genes affect?