GGRB28H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tropical Medicine, Neoliberalism, Social Forces
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Ex. different life expectancies ; the life expectancy of living in. Bangladesh for example a lot of people have the same life expectancy for those living in brooklyn. Why do people have the same life expectancy comparing a poor country to a wealthy country such as the us: re-emerging infectious diseases . For example, ebola it came up in the 70"s but reappeared in. Therefore a disease like ebola would be considered re- emerging because it has always been around but now the people that have been mostly impacted by it are more visible" in greater society. Appeared more visibly to the public eye: effected people in the. West, some physicians were impacted, more visible because it impacted international trade and commerce, people were afraid that it would come to north america (which it did in dallas and the media focused on it ) Some examples of why it"s considered re-emerging from.
