HSCI 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Maternal Death, Child Mortality, Herd Immunity
23 Dec 2017
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Smallpox eradication: important factors that helped eradicate disease. Can only be transferred person to person, only need to vaccine people. Vaccination ring - only vaccine people near area with smallpox cases. Vaccine is cheap, available and easy to administer. Herd immunity, if most are immune it can get eradicated eventually. Nigeria population was scattered, easy to vaccine village by village because people do not travel much. Looking at cultural and religious traditions, building trust between the community. Team of public health professionals were very devoted to the cause. Poverty malnutrition, poor health, lack of access to health services decreased productivity, even less income, unemployment catastrophic expenses on drugs and health care, debts, poorer health. Measures the average achievements in a country in three basic dimensions of human development. Calculated for 186 countries and areas for which data is available. Government policies, programs and on health sector.
