Women's Health
Any deliberate procedure that injures the female genital organs for non-medical reasons
What is Female Genital Mutilation?
Airborne disease linked to living in crowded circumstances, undernutrition, inadequate health care and HIV
What is tuberculosis?
Condition when one does not get proper nutrition, whether too little, too much, or the wrong kind
What is malnutrition?
The average number of years a newborn baby could expect to live if current mortality trends continue
What is life expectancy at birth?
"WASH" - The three main issues with water
What is: Access, Sanitation and Hygiene?
A hole in the birth canal caused by obstructed labor
What is obstetric fistula?
The treatment for tuberculosis?
What is DOTS, directly-observed therapy short-course?
Failure to reach linear growth potential because of inadequate nutrition or poor health
What is stunting?
The number of women who die as a result of pregnancy and childbirth complications in a given year (timing=pregnancy + 6 weeks after)
What is maternal mortality?
Type of toilet/waste disposal with no water
What is a pit latrine?
Focus on keeping girls in school and in school longer will result in shifting this gendered practice
What is child marriage?
Reduction of case transmission of a disease to a predetermined very low level
What is elimination?
Baby weighing less than 2500 grams
What is a low birthweight baby?
The number of deaths to infants under 28 days of age in a given year
What is neonatal mortality?
Lack of access to electricity and modern energy sources that limits economic development, constrains people’s life chances and traps millions in extreme poverty
What is energy poverty?
Eliminating maternal mortality related to Obstetric Fistula focuses on TWO strategies
What is KNOWLEDGE (Recognizing when to seek medical attention)
and ACCESS (getting improved access to health services)?
Diseases that causes poor nutrition, decreased immunity, social stigma and tremendously impacts education, productivity and country economics
What are Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)?
Nutritional disorder that leads to serious problems such as slowed growth and development and blindness
What is Vitamin A Deficiency?
Primary cause of mortality in low-income settings?
What are communicable/preventable diseases?
The leading cause (source) of indoor household pollution in developing countries
What are cooking stoves?
Ultimately the most fundamental way to improve women's (and family) health worldwide
What is changing gender norms?
The four main ways to deal with malaria
What are:
1) Prompt diagnosis & treatment
2) Therapy for pregnant women
3) Insecticide treated bed nets
4) Indoor residual spraying
Condition with severe protein-deficiency
What is Kwashiorkor?
The 4 interrelated factors integral to global health
What is health, education, economics, and poverty?
Gaseous fuel, especially methane, produced by the fermentation of organic matter
What is biogas?