ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Porotic Hyperostosis, Mycobacterium Bovis, Epidemiological Transition
25 Mar 2015
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Anthro 1aa3: food sex and death- lecture 20: disease. Changes in diseases are associated with changes in human lifestyle, and the advent of modernity and globalization. Food production altered human relationships with the environment. Rat louse - and flea- borne diseases (e. g. bubonic plague) Change in the way humans interact with their environment. New opportunities for zoonoses infectious diseases acquired from animals. Sedentism - garbage and human waste accumulate. High population densities favour herd diseases (person person) (e. g. measles, smallpox, etc ) European colonialism was a part of this first epidemiological transition: Anemia porotic hyperostosis corresponds with increasing reliance upon agricultural products. Last 25 years, we have experienced (as a result of globalization) Antibiotic resistance and microbial adaptations emerging or new infectious diseases. Ecological change brings humans into contact with pathogens. Interaction of social and environmental changes creates conditions for emerging diseases. Diseases of development = health problems caused by economic development projects.
