GEOG 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Degenerative Disease, Epidemiological Transition, Cardiovascular Disease
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Epidemic: infectious diseases that is widespread at a particular time in a community. Pandemic: similar to epidemic but more widespread, such as over a whole country or even the world. Endemic: diseases that are found naturally in certain places and are ongoing. Pestilence: highly fatal epidemic disease e. g. the bubonic plague. Epidemiology: branch of medicine looking into cases, distributions, and spread of diseases. Diseases that can be transmitted from person to person. During the epidemiologic transition, a long-term shift occurred in mortality and disease patterns whereby pandemics of infection are replaced by degenerative and man-made diseases. Economics: the study of production, distribution, and consumption of commodities. Economic geography: the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities. Production in any given period is just enough to meet survival needs; no accumulation of wealth or transfer of productivity from one period to the next. Property rights are exchanged based on the law of supply and demand.
