ANTC68H3 Lecture : Lecture 1
Document Summary
Endemic: when infectious/non-infectious disease is present in a population at a relatively constant. social contexts we created and maintained to allow diseases to persist dispite the: a lot of people globally can be infected and killed technological advances. Tropical regions- more diseases: evolutionary, attention to evolution www. notesolution. com, how things change over time, how condition of change impacts disease/epidemics. Europeans going to new world bring new diseases. Epidemic: ebola, aids, bird flu, typhoid: now public perception of diseases change by the media, different types of media- tv, books, internet, how we"ve being misled, misinform, ignorant because we never hear about it. Visibility: why some diseases more visible that others, factors that make diseases visible, less visible. Social construction of epidemics: how cultures via media, government, public health can construct an event as an epidemic, how epidemics can be constructed, stereotypes, stigma.