ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Syndemic, Epidemiological Transition, Demographic Transition

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Bianca Dahl

Document Summary

Identifying the factors that influence people"s decisions to diagnose illness or differentiate between threatening and life- threatening diseases. Identifying factors that affect people"s preparedness to use biomedical services and adhere to prescribed treatment: anthropologists help minimize suffering, anthropologists facilitate access to biomedical resources and, anthropologists help translate information between biomedical. Sustainable interventions practitioners and local populations to result in more effective health interventions. Syndemic refers to the synergistic interaction of two or more co- existing diseases and the resultant excess burden of disease. > could be a short answer or mcq. > ex: asthma sufferers have higher rate of influenza infection than non-asthma sufferers. racial minorities neighbourhood violence: hospitalization rates are higher in inner cities (poor) and for, asthma rates are also higher in children surrounded by. > syndemics could also be a disease + something else that"s creating a bad health in an individual (ex. It is one of the greatest determinants of human health today.