SG4: How far can diseases be predicted and mitigated against? Flashcards
What are the opportunities that globalisation has created for better health and disease management worldwide?
- Vaccines
- money for medicine
- Aid from different countries e.g. ebola outbreak
- Access to protective clothing e.g. masks
- Same health practices, same systems
- AC’s helping out LIDCs
- Improved technology
- Exchange knowledge e.g. cholera
What are the challenges created for disease management and health by globalisation?
- Easily spread through transport e.g. plane
- Contagious diffusion, expansion, relocation diffusion can occur.
- If it becomes a pandemic, difficult to find the source.
- Difficult to contain due to transport.
- Globalisation increases pollution e.g. china
- Obesity- globalisation of fast food.
What is globalisation?
The process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected as a result of increased trade.
What is time space compression?
Refers to the set of processes that cause the relative distances better between places.
What is a pandemic?
An epidemic of infectious disease that has spread across a ;large region, for instance multiple continents.
How has globalisation affected the creation of pandemics?
- Planes can transport the viruses
- Migration - due to increased travel
- Holidays - cheaper flights around
- TNC’s- more global businesses make international travel.
Name some pandemics from the past
- HIV
- Influenza
- Great Flu 1917
- Measles
- Plague
Name the case study using for the global pandemic?
SARs
What is SARs?
A severe acute respiratory syndrome
Date of the outbreak?
November 2002
Who was the first victim?
A farmer in Guangdong, China
How did SARs spread so quickly?
Delay in containing the disease. WHO came after in 10th Feb 2003.
Name some countries involved with the SARs
Vietnam, Singapore,
Number of countries affected
29
Number of deaths
1000
