ANTH 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Infant Mortality, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Epidemiological Transition
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3 - recognizing biological, social, and cultural interconnections. Incidence rates - how many new cases of this particular disease are registered each month/year: prevalence rates - calculation of the percentage of the total population that is infected with the disease at any given point/time, epidemiological triangle. Pathogen host: adaptation (in the sociocultural context) Biological aspects: mutations occur (develop of strand, motif (particular traits that are better fit) Socio-cultural factors that increase the uprising of the more virulent strains of bacteria: overuse of anti-bacterial products (altering environment in which they live in and they eventually develop a resistance to these products, relation to cholera. Increase of humans via systems of mass transportation (from one region to another far easier) Increase in the concentration of human populations in urban centers (especially in developing countries) has far outpaced the ability of public services to accommodate the increased numbers. Cholera outbreaks in peru: ecological perspective. Interaction between the cholera bacterium and the host (movement)
