The Most Common Connotation of Scaling Up of International Health

question 10

True/False

The most common connotation of scaling up of international health is the expansion of international health interventions but it can also imply the expansion of financial, human, and capital resources to increase healthcare coverage of the populations considered.

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Definitions:

Macrosystem

In ecological systems theory, the largest and most remote set of people and places to a person that still exercises significant influence on them, encompassing cultural values, economic conditions, and societal laws.

Chronosystem

A layer within Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory representing the dimension of time and its influence on a child's development.

Exosystem

A component of Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, referring to external environments that indirectly influence the individual, such as parents' workplaces or the neighborhood's social conditions.

Chronosystem

In ecological systems theory, it refers to the patterning of environmental events and transitions over the life course, as well as socio-historical circumstances that affect an individual's development.