Life Expectency

Question 1

What are the factors that influence life expectancy?

Answer 1

Nutrition, health, pollution, disease, occupation, education, housing, medical availability, corruption.

Question 2

What are the factors that influence birth rates?

Answer 2

Disease, economic status, family needs, attitudes, beliefs, conflict, wars, government policy.

Question 3

What is HIV?

Answer 3

Human immunodeficiency virus.

Question 4

Name two African countries with the rate of HIV is high?

Answer 4

Cameroon and Niger.

Question 5

How does malaria spread?

Answer 5

Five a parasite that mosquitoes picks up by biting someone with the disease.
Also by dirty needles.

Question 6

What happened with the HIV and AIDS pandemic?

Answer 6

At least 25 million people died.

2010 36 million infected with HIV and AIDS and 2/3 in Africa.

Question 7

What is the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic?

Answer 7

I pandemic spread to other countries while the epidemic stay in a country.