Why are diseases important ?
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- Created on: 19-03-14 17:05
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- Why are diseases important ?
- WHO- the world health organisation
- Maintain that good health is human right and poor health causes suffering and reduced productivity
- In Ledc's the following factors contriubte to poor health: Poverty, lack of shelter, lack of purified water,poor nutrition, poor hygeine, lack of investment from governments, civil warfare, lack of knowledge of causes of disease and how to recognise symptoms
- Malaria
- 3 million people die each year
- 300 million people affected with malaria
- This is limited to areas where the anopheles mosquito can survive( tropical regions)
- Because of global warming there is a risk of the mosquitio being able to survive further north
- 90% of those living or dieing from malaria are from sub saharan africa
- This is limited to areas where the anopheles mosquito can survive( tropical regions)
- TB
- World wide disease and it was declared a public health emergency in 1993
- FACTS
- in 2005 there were 8.8 million new cases of tb
- In 2005 1.6 million people died from tb
- 1% of the worlds population is newly infected with the bacteria each year, 10-15% of these people go on to develop the disease
- it is estimated that 30% of the worlds population may be infected
- Tb is common in sub saharan africa, asia and eastern europe
- HIV/AIDS
- HIV/AIDS is a worldwide pandemic
- in 2005 45 million people were living with hiv/aids and 30 million people died from hiv/ aids related disease
- each year 5 million people are newly infected with it
- its common in sub saharan afria, but the numbers are spreading in asia,russia and europe
- WHO- the world health organisation
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