GG273 Lecture 1: Geography of Health and Disease.docx
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Society has made a healthy and who is mental, social well-being resources; personal, societal. Normal values" decision based on numbers of who is not. Reductionist- focus on organ and cell, less on the person abnormal = disease. Causal-based theories; within or without a body. Physicians job is to learn diseases and cure them. Virus, bacterium, poison, wrath of god, bad air, clogged artery. Cancer: many people associate cancer with death, prostate cancer is the number 1 in males, colorectal coming in second, breast cancer is number 1 in women and then lung and colorectal. Tb: caused by bacteria, inside the body. It is not a disease, it is an illness. Malaria: most cases in canada are brought in from somewhere else, every 30 secs, a child dies from malaria, mostly over in africa, however we do have it here. 20% of all canadians get depressed at some point in their life.
