HLTC05H3 Chapter Notes -Improved Sanitation, Leprosy, Dont
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Week # 2 readings evolutionary, historical and political economic perspectives on health and disease . Surgeon general, william t. stewart testified before congress in 1969 (america"s chief medical. Who reports 14 million of the 55 million global deaths due to respiratory, infectious and parasitic diseases. 2 billion have hep b, 2 billion tb, 40 million aids. Some may reject omran"s model of epidemiological transition theory based on the fact that there are still infectious/emergent diseases but we are applying his model in the broader evolutionary context. Fall 2012: primary food production; domestication of plants and animals, all these factors have changed disease ecology. 2nd epidemiological next phase, we live in the 3rd epidemiological transition. Criticisms of emerging diseases: paul farmer (1996) argues that emerging diseases are only discovered when they have an impact on americans. Example: lyme disease didn"t matter till it affected wealthy anglosaxons.
