germs, genes and history

Question 1

name and describe what the four types of health environments are

Answer 1

physical environment: climate, geography

built environment: housing, transport networks, energy networks

social environment: legal and political structures

cultural environments: presence/absence of psychosocial stressors

Question 2

what are two examples of how migration shapes health environments

Answer 2

the Irish potato famine

globalising tuberculosis

Question 3

what are examples of global human movement and interaction between health environments

Answer 3

food environments and chronic illness, biomedical research climates, presence of genetic conditions

Question 4

what night change patterns of human movements and significantly affect health environments in the future

Answer 4

tourism, belt and road initiative, water wars, environmental refugees