HSS 2321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Malaria, Byrsonima Crassifolia, Determinant
28 Mar 2017
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Determinants of health: studying and acknowledging non-medical determinants of health gives us new options for addressing health issues, health becomes relevant to: commerce, government, nance, city planning, agriculture, religion, etc. Availability of resources to meet daily needs, such as educational and job opportunities, living wages, or healthful foods. Exposure to crime, violence, and social disorder, such as the presence of trash. Exposure to mass media and emerging technologies, such as the internet or cell phones. Natural environment, such as plants, weather, or climate change. Exposure to toxic substances and other physical hazards. Aesthetic elements, such as good lighting, trees, or benches: treating malaria: not simply a biomedical problem, now is a political-geographical problem. No because they tend to live in neighbourhoods with no mosquitoes and in homes that are not infested. Their children tend to sleep under good mosquito nets. They tend to have better nutrition and are therefore more resilient against infection.
