ANT 4462 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Drug Resistance, Millennium Development Goals
Document Summary
Globalization: process of interaction and integration among people, governments and commerce of nations, driven by trade and investment, medical tourism. Sanitation: toilets, clean water, clean food, less cross contamination of disease. Poverty trap: any self-reinforcing mechanism causing poverty to persist, poverty equals poverty. Infectious disease and poverty: infectious disease is known to be more prevalent among poor populations, due to poor sanitation, lack of education, lack of health resources, poverty does not equal infectious disease. Burden: caregivers/families, great impact where health systems are weak, proxy for poverty/disadvantage, cause stigma and discrimination. Burden, continued: health/economic burden, affect population with low visibility and little political voice, low on many research funders agendas. Millennium development goals: reduce poverty, income, hunger, disease, shelter, group committed to fixing issues. Non-communicable disease: diseases that are not infectious and not transferable. Cost effective investment: direct savings = reduced medical costs, indirect savings = increased productivity, reduced loss of work time, breaking the poverty trap.
