ANTC68H3 Lecture Notes - Infant Mortality, Merca, Life Table
Document Summary
Anthropogenesis of disease emergence refers to: human made factors in the emergence of new disease. Social scientific perspective, more on social and bio-cultural perspective of disease as to why disease occur. If we provide a pop with certain info, certain behaviours should result. Model of epidemiology in terms of their approach in controlling disease. Whether it is disease process, protection from disease. Understand certain risks and change your behaviour. Knowledge = behaviour: better knowledge of hiv/aids and use of condoms leads to a behaviour in which people will use protection to prevent and control disease outbreak. Introducing behavioural and household changes in contexts that lack the infrastructural, structural and political support to sustain them. Allows anthropology more flexibility to gather info and report to local clinic area. Links biological, social, behavioural and cultural factors in the evolution (emergence) of diseases and epidemics.
