The Worldwide importance of diseases

Question 1

What is the WHO?

Answer 1

The World Health Organisation.

Question 2

What factors contribute to the likelihood of poor health?

Answer 2

Poverty, lack of shelter, lack of water, poor hygiene/nutrition, inadequate health services, inadequate education etc.

Question 3

What are the impacts of malaria?

Answer 3

Kills 3M people each year. 300M affected. Limited to tropical regions where Anopheles mosquito can survive – 90% of all affected in sub-Saharan Africa.

Question 4

What are the impacts of HIV?

Answer 4

HIV/AIDs; 45M people at end of 2005. 5M newly affected annually. 30M dead by end of 2005.

Question 5

What are the impacts of Tuberculosis?

Answer 5

Declared public health emergency in 1993. 1% of world’s population affected. In 2005 8.8M cases recorded, with 1.6 million deaths.