IDSB04H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Agribusiness, Blood Sugar Regulation, Lifesaving
1 Mar 2017
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Chapter 6 epidemiologic profiles of global health and disease. Leading causes of morbidity and mortality across societies and the life cycle. Three countries chosen with different levels of income and redistribution to show the range in causes of death: high-income/redistributive: italy, middle-income/partially redistributive: indonesia, low-income/marginally redistributive: kenya. Figure 6-1 leading causes of death in the world (2013: the top three causes of death are chronic non communicable conditions such as coronary heart disease, cancer and cerebrovascular disease (stroke) Italy (an hic) has high levels of income inequality and child poverty compared to other european countries they have high life expectancy, low child mortality rates, and low maternal mortality ratios (figure 6-2) Ncds are present in all countries and their numbers of growing. Ncds cause over two thirds of all deaths in order to help this growing fact, political declarations are being used to reduce (cid:862)(cid:396)isk fa(cid:272)to(cid:396)s(cid:863), p(cid:396)o(cid:373)ote (cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h o(cid:374) p(cid:396)e(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ol.
