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New disease dillemas Flashcards

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Covid Classification

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Infectious Contagious

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How long until covid was considered a pandemic

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3 months

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How many cases/deaths of covid 2021

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7 million deaths
100 million cases

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US/China deaths from covid

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1.1 million
111,0000

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Mitigation against covid China

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Ac means more people have the resources to stay inside
6.7 beds per 1000 ppl
Good health insurance policies
Screening policies

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Mitigation against covid US

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Low vaccination uptake dispite AC
2.4 hospital beds per 100 people.
22m ppl arrive per year

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What is the classification for malaria

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Communicable, zoonotic

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Global cases for malaria 2017

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220 million

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9
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Malarias distrubution in ethiopia

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endemic in 75% of land area.
70,000 deaths annually

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Mosquito facts

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Female anophales mosquito lays eggs in stagnant water sources such as after monsoon season.
most active between 18 - 40 degrees C

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Top down mitigation of malaria

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Insectacide treated nets 3.5 million distributed in 2015
Indoor residual spraying 700,000 houses sprayed

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12
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Grassroots mitagtion of malaria ethiopia

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World malaria day
Zero malaria starts with me

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13
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Evidence of success malaria ethiopia

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60% reduction in mortality

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CVD stats

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Above stage 3 of epidemiologic transition model
30-65% deaths
700,000 deaths 2021 US

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Globesity stats

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Over 30kg/m^2 BMI
Children in bottom income quintile 3x more likely to be obese than those in the top

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Lung cancer in Uk

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Lifstyle cause
2nd most common cancer in UK

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mitigation against lung cancer uk

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no smoking zones
packaging warnings
Lung cancer dropped 60% in last 40 years
4 in 10 diagnosed in stage 1

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lung cancer india

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environmental cause
8th worst air quality country

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lung cancer india mitigation

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encourage cokking with LPG but firewook is free
stop crop burning (enforcement)

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NGO work in haiti

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Red cross + crescent
National hand washing day and distribution of water purification tabs
Also negative effect of nepalese aid workers

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Env factors of cholera haiti

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Internal displacement due to eq and hurricances.
30% have access to clean water

22
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Cholera classifiaction

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Infectious bacterial

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HIV classifiaction

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Communicable

24
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HIV stats

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35 million worldwide living with it

25
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Mitigation against HIV in SA

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Mobile clinics
PREP medication
educating young women

26
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how does the rosy periwinkle suffer from biopiracy

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hundreds of millions produced in madigascar but profits go to US pharmaceutical giants

27
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how can biopiracy be compated

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fairtrade
laws to pay compensatory benefits

28
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what is rosy periwinkle used for

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helped increase childhood cancer servival form 10-90% from 1970

28
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what is rosy periwinkle used for

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helped increase childhood cancer servival form 10-90% from 1970
diabetes in china

29
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WHO outline

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offices in 150 countries
wokr with govs
helps research and set targets

30
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Define contagious

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Spreads thru direct or indirect contact

31
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When and where was HIV discovered

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1983 central Africa

32
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Define communicable

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Diseases which spread easily from host to host but do not require quarantine

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Infectious definition

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disease spread by pathogens

34
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Non - infectious definition

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diseases not spread from host to host but caused by external factors such as …

35
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Non contagious definition

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Pathogens spread by disease vectors

36
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causes of influenza in eaurope

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transmission most at 5 degrees C
weaker immune system in winter, lower vitamin D

37
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what is hypertension

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high blood pressure

38
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cholera symptoms

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appear within 2-3 days
dehydration, shock
fatal within hours
diarrhea, vomiting

39
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haiti GDP

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1800

40
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Haiti cholera stats

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700,000 contractions by 2015

41
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Responses to cholera haiti

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750,000 immunised
300 latrines serving 250,000 people

42
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Patent definition

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rights to produce drug for 20 years

43
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GSK work

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close to malaria vaccine
developing ebola vaccine
2 million vaccines per day to 160 countries
1 billion per year on research

44
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GSK ethical policy

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Re invest 20% of profits
Cap patented drugs to 25% of uk price in EDC countries

45
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Grassroots approach to ginea worm

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Working with women as they collect the water
educate value of filtering to avoid contamination.

46
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Ginea worm stat

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200,000 cases since 1990

47
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Polio insight

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vaccine developed in 1952
jonas silk didnt patent so was eradicated in 1988 in america.

48
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Threats on medicianl plants

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4000 plants threatened by deforestation
issues in commercialising cultivation

49
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when was WHO establised

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1948

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