HLSC 3805U Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Neglected Tropical Diseases, Oral Rehydration Therapy, Dracunculiasis
28 Nov 2016
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Involves the study of the distribution and determinants of chronic diseases and conditions in human populations and the application of that study to prevent and control these diseases and conditions. The pathologic changes that occur before clinical manifestation of a chronic disease are relatively long. A characteristic, condition, or behavior, such as smoking that increases the possibility of disease or injury. Certain behaviors, environmental exposure, or inherent human characteristics that increase the chance of a specific health condition. Infectious diseases that thrive in the hot, humid conditions. How is malaria transmitted? vector borne transmission (plasmodium). Bacterial infection that occurs from contaminated water/ food. Diverse group of communicable diseases, persist exclusively in the poorest and most marginalized populations. There is no vaccine, vector control, anti-parasitic treatment. 50% of the world population is at risk. There is a vaccine since 2015, no specific treatment, vector control. People who do not have access to clean water.
