GEOG 1035 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Medical Model, Occupational Stress, Diarrhea
1 Sep 2016
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Noncommunicable (developed: example: recall the epidemiologic transition . Squatters, undocumented or non-status migrants, persons without identity cards, nomads, persons engaged in illegal activities - important but not sufficient: typically focus on individual and disease specific conditions rather than on the structural factors, which affect multiple diseases, simultaneously. Present in developed societies with weak social welfare systems and those undermined by underfunding and deregulation (e. g. , diabetes mellitus, chronic. Diseases of modernization and work: cardiovascular disease o group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels (e. g. , Chd, cvd, etc. : leading cause of death globally; projected to remain so o approx. 2008, representing 30% of all global: deaths (7. 3 million due to chd, 6. 2 million due to stroke) o lics and mics are disproportionally affected: over 80% of. Cvd deaths take place in low- and middle-income countries (occurring almost equally in men + women) o.
