ANTHROP 1AA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Porotic Hyperostosis, Iron-Deficiency Anemia, Epidemiological Transition

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Epidemiological transitions: 1st food productions, 2nd- industrialization, 3rd- global ecological change. Impact of agriculture (~10000 years ago: changes in the way humans interact with their environment, major changes in diet, changes in demography, economy, sedentary communities. Increased population density: consequences of agriculture, new opportunities for zoonoses- infectious diseases acquired from animals, sedentism- garbage and human waste accumulate, high population densities favor herd disease (person person) (measures, smallpox) Infectious disease & malnutrition synergy: skeletal indicators of stress, porotic hyperostosis- iron deficiency anemia, cribra orbitalia- iron deficiency anemia. 2nd epidemiologic transition- industrialization ~200-300 years ago: chronic and degenerative diseases increase, longer lives, biomedical technology and science (vaccinations, continued population growth and urbanization. Infectious diseases re-emerge: environmental degradation, antibiotic resistance and microbial adaptations emerging or new diseases, tuberculosis, hiv/aids, sars, ecological change brings humans into contact with pathogens, emerging diseases & human activity.