HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: World Health Organization, Global Health, Foodborne Illness
10 May 2017
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In west, life expectancy roughly 77 hears, only 55 in poorest countries. Infant mortality in us (2/1000) compared to 150/1000) in poorest areas. 95% of hiv infections in developing world, 70% in sub saharan africa. Only 10% of the money that goes into health and illness and disease goes towards treating the problems that face 90% of the world"s population. Therefore health research money is spent on relatively small sliver of the global population. Certain cultural practices are becoming more entrenched in certain parts of the world ex. Ideas of biomedicine are becoming more diffused. Ex. policies related to foodborne illness, who develops responses to these. Physical relocation and dislocation of biological matter (meat, animals, plants, people, pathogens) Easier for these things to move from one place to the other. As a consequence see substantial health outcomes. Post wwii expansion of international institutions aimed to eliminate global health inequalities.
