PSY 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Aids, Non-Communicable Disease, Epidemiological Transition
11 Apr 2019
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Transmitted human to human, human to animal, or animal to human. Ex. breast cancer - you can"t catch it. Cd4 lymphocytes - are on t cells. Once below 200 cd4 count, converted from hiv to aids. As ses increases, cause of death more likely to be non-communicable diseases. Top 10 global causes of death in 2016. Towards the bottom get more into communicable (less common when you look at everyone) Occurs as death rate declines and higher proportion of children survive. Gradually, infectious childhood diseases replaced by chronic degenerative noncommunicable disease. In developing world, ncds are replacing infectious disease and malnutrition as leading causes of disability and mortality; cd disproportionately impact poor. Impact of specific cd varies by age group and ses. Ability of bacteria, viruses, and other microbes to resist the effect of drugs. Rare cancer of blood vessels serving the skin, mucous membranes, and other glands in the body. A primate virus possibly originated in west-central africa.
