GEO 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: World Health Organization, Global Health, Zoonosis
13 Apr 2016
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Global burden of disease the general picture about disease and health. Pandemics the threat from extraordinary outbreaks of infecious disease. Demographers and health authoriies such as the world health organisaion use this term to describe paterns of global health and well being. Changes in frequency of who it is who sufers. Who esimates that about 60-75% of personal income and 40% of household income is used to buy cigaretes in developing countries, virtually all by men. Ontario moh health costs and revenues data: 2007/08 iscal year tobacco tax revenue . 127 billion. 2006/07 iscal year tobacco tax revenue . 236 billion. Smoking costs at least 4. 8 imes what it earns in taxes. Diseases, communicable or non-communicable, are relaively predictable in their paterns across regions and ime. Their burden" can be esimated and incorporated into development goals. But what about epidemics and pandemics, which are:
