ANTB15H3 Study Guide - Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Mortality Displacement
Document Summary
Contagious disease: 9 million people annually 1person/second, 2. 5 million people died every year, or 1 person/15 seconds. Social: women as primary caregivcrs, women spending time at home with the sick. Physiological differences: the onset (stressor) of childbearing/giving birth, symptoms of cough and sputum expectoration is less common in, women delayed the seeking of treatment. women. Bovine (m. bovis) endemic: possible that tb is a mutant bovine form, domestication of cattle (neolithic 6000-7000bc, old world) tb was. Transmission optimal conditions: overcrowding, poor public/personal hygiene. Decline in deaths due to respiratory tuberculosis (1830-1860) Frost & grigg: a theoritical plot of tb morbidity and mortality. Mortality or death rate=total number of deaths/population at risk. The sudden and dramatic increase in the death arising from a common, unusual casual factor operation for a limited period. Triggered by famine, flood, drought, war, epidemic, smog. In most western industrialized countries, there has been a progressive decline in the death rate.
