GS101 Lecture Notes - Bubonic Plague, Global Health, Guillain–Barré Syndrome
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Global health has been an issue in history. Epidemic: outbreak of disease that attacks many people at the same time. It can spread through one or several communities. Endemic: refers to a disease that happens in a geographic region. Infectious diseases: referring to a disease that is spread through one person. To stop infections from spreading"s, we have vaccines. Non communicable dieses (ncd): dieses that are not spread through people via contact. The richer the nation is, the healthier people are. Economics, there has been a trend for globality. The more that people have been interacting with reach other, the more diseases. Europe, reaching moscow: 1347- 1351- most bad years for this year, buboes: painful, hard swellings on the body in the lymfnodes, can spread throughout body, rats spread the bacteria that started the plague. By the 19th century, sickness was documented numerical sickness. Diseases started to be examined in more a statistical way correlation between poverty, class, and disease.
