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Chapter 3 Gateway 1:
What are the global patterns of health and diseases?
How and why does the health of people differ between DCs and LDCs?
1) Social Factors
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Diet Food and Drink people or community consumes (DC more meat)
Malnutrition is when the body does not get sufficient nutrients (LDCs)
Obesity is the condition of being overweight due to excess nutrients (DCs)
Education About how to live healthily and earn higher incomes to access
better medical services.
2) Economic Factors
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More public or private hospitals and facilities (Patient-bed ratio and doctor to
patient ratio high in DCs)
3) Environmental Factors
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Infectious Diseases
Bacteria and viruses
Severi
ty
Malaria:
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Vector borne disease are diseases transmitted via living organisms (Mosquito)
Liver, Kidney failure, Anaemia
Expansion diffusion is when a disease spread outwards from its source
Africans are more vulnerable to Malaria
Impacts of Malaria
1) Socio demographic impact
- Death rate Millions die from Malaria
- Infant mortality rates Many babies and mothers die from malaria
2) Economic Impact
- Burden of malaria on households Increased medical expenses
- Cost of health care Set aside funds to address the disease
- Loss of productivity Cannot work due to poor health. Productivity is the rate
at which goods or services are produced.
HIV/AIDs:
Impacts of HIV/AIDs
1) Socio demographic impact
- Life expectancy and infant mortality rate
- Orphan Crisis Africa (Nigeria)
Poverty and forced labour make them sex workers or child soldiers
2) Economic impacts
- Healthcare expenditure Expensive to treat (Antiretroviral drug)
- Slower economic growth Absenteeism, decline in labour, loss of skilled labour
and increased healthcare expenditure (Less money for education and foreign
talents)