ANTC68H3 Lecture Notes - Intellectual Disability, Binge Eating, Headache
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Biological perspective looking at biological and cultural factors. Ecological perspective counting for ecology; separate from human behaviour but links to a cultural factor i. e. global warming. Evolutionary perspective accounts for historical contingency; time depth; looks at disease patterns today that are results of long term changes over thousands of years. Anthropogenesis means that we recognize human made factors. Pathogens take advantage of the social conditions created by man. Epidemic is a human made word and how we will classify something as an epidemic. Adhd: dominant western approach to kids with adhd is to give them drugs (ritalin) Some ppl argue the anti-viral drugs for aids is making it worse and causing more mortality than the actual disease itself. Pharmaceutical companies play a role in why we still have diseases today some drugs are too expensive for ppl to buy. Paleoepidemiology: ancient times, looks at the past, limited in trying to look at prevalence and incidence rates.
