GEOG 2HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Population Pyramid, Public Health, Cardiovascular Disease
13 Feb 2017
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Reflects the population"s collective experiences and way of life (culture) Populations profile of health and disease is essentially an expression of its social and physical environments. Regards disease as a harmful interaction between people and their environment, characterized across geographic scale and with attention to population, economics, culture and politics. Can also be used as a framework to implement change for positive health outcomes. Lecture 3 what are population and health geography. Connections, changes and causes of population and health geography. Population"s profile of health and disease is an expression of its social and physical environments. Connections: economy, polity, society, culture and demography. Changes: genes, microbes, environments, scientific views and human activity. Causes: distribution, diffusion, determination of death and illness. Populations collective experiences and culture (see above) See a decrease in communicable (infectious) diseases > vaccines, better health care. Stable, but there is a slow increase of level of injury.
