Also known as chronic disease or degenerative disease
What is non-communicable disease?
100
Disturbance of heart function due to inadequate supply of oxygen to the heart muscle
What is ischemic heart disease?
100
Of women or men, the one with the higher prevalence of smoking
What is men?
100
The single most important priority for preventing cancer
What is tobacco control?
100
The mental health disorder that is associated with the most DALYs lost globally
What is depression?
200
Term that measures years of healthy life lost due to premature death and disability
What is DALYs (disability-adjusted life years)?
200
Sudden loss of function to the brain due to clotting or hemorrhaging
What is stroke?
200
Age when most people who smoke are most likely to have started
What is teens?
200
Increased taxation on tobacco leads to the unintended consequence of smuggling of cigarettes. Increased taxation on alcohol leads to this unintended consequence
What is production and consumption of illicit alcohol?
200
True or false: There are both genetic and non-genetic risk factors for mental disorders.
What is true.
300
The most significant kind of risk factor for non-communicable diseases
What is lifestyle or behavioral factors?
300
Term to cover a large variety of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth of cells
What is cancer?
300
2003 WHO agreement outlining measures countries have agreed to undertake to reduce both the demand for and supply of tobacco
What is the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC)?
300
True or false: Population-based health education has been universally successful in promoting the reduction of obesity.
What is false.
300
More than half of the productivity loss associated with illness, injury, or accidents in the United States comes from this kind of health disorder
What is mental health disorders?
400
The types of diseases that are spread by an infectious agent from person/animal to person/animal
What are communicable diseases?
400
Leading specific cause of death globally for all age groups and sexes
What is ischemic heart disease?
400
The single most effective public policy measure, worldwide, for reducing consumption of tobacco
What is increasing taxes on tobacco products?
400
The World Health Assembly document that includes voluntary global targets for dealing with NCDs
What is the Global NCD Action Plan 2013-2020?
400
The term describing a situation where two or more illnesses affect a person simultaneously, such as mental disorders frequently occurring together with heart disease and/or diabetes
What is comorbidity?
500
The only part of the world where communicable diseases are a greater burden than non-communicable diseases
What is sub-Saharan Africa?
500
An illness caused by poor control by the body of blood sugar
What is diabetes?
500
Hand-rolled cigarettes used largely in South Asia
What are bidis?
500
True or false: NCD prevention strategies are unfortunately expensive and rarely cost-effective.
What is false.
500
A syndrome, usually chronic or progressive in nature, in which there is deterioration of cognitive functioning beyond what might be expected from normal aging