SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Idiopathy, Malaria, Animal Magnetism
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Can"t tell if data is due to poverty. Power in african countries and south central asia/americans= difference. You see mortality and prevalence of disease is dropping, you also see (according to world health organization) you see faster spreads today, when epidemics start, they spread faster. You see more new ones since 1970s, they identified 40 new diseases (due to environmental destruction and the rate of this destruction) Cut down forests, deforestation, get ticks (east coast), lead to lime disease, etc. Governments make political decisions based on lots of things (decision to invest in one thing, but causes conflict with other interests) What"s the way to look at what"s happening globally. In text: mentions hiv as a bad government decision (this isn"t restricted to poor countries); there were a lot of governments who are not investing or doing what they could have done to reduce the spread of the epidemic. Political decisions have different reasons backing it up.
