SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: 1854 Broad Street Cholera Outbreak
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Easier to maintain and repair get it to everyone equally. Mortality and wealth no doubt that this correlation exists and strongly too correlation is not causation. Cholera: dr. john snow made fantastic contribution and saved tons of life the father of epidemiology first study to employ correct methods. Zimbabwe clean drinking water redefined as a human right in the new millennial goals centralize water quality control piping system hospital workers on strike clear example of road to hell paved with good intentions (water supply) H1 locational disadvantage exacerbates the effects of poverty the rural poor suffer more than the urban poor. H2 pronounced bias in infrastructure and service provision has left poor populations vulnerable to epidemic disease. H3 since urban bias causes rural poverty and poverty causes disease, the most effective way to control rural disease is by reducing urban bias.