Global Patterns affecting Disease
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- Created on: 18-06-19 11:44
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- Global patterns affecting disease
- Temperature
- Warm and humid conditions are ideal for diseases.
- Are endemic to the tropics. Vector behaviour is more active - more breeding and thriving.
- Malaria and Yellow Fever
- Precipitation
- Precipitation can increase humidity.
- Stagnant pools of water allow vectors to breed,
- It is humid at the equator where there is low pressure.
- Relief
- This is the shape of the land.
- Altitude affects temperature and precipitation (Ethiopia).
- Water sources
- Water-borne diseases such as cholera.
- People in LIDCs rely on contaminated water sources.
- Temperature
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