Health

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name an infectious disease
HIV/AIDS
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which region is it most prevelant?
Sub-Saharan Africa
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what percentage of people live in this region?
32%
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what % of death occur here?
34%
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what has caused the spread?
mobile population, sexual taboos, lack of education, lack of condoms
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why do many die?
lack of ARV drug avaliability, poor diet and lack of immunity
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how is it more likely to effect women?
women are four times more likely to develop HIV than men
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what % of women are infected by their husbands?
80%
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name an organisation that tries to help?
'stepping stones'
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name a region that is particuliarly badly hit?
Botswana
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what are the rates amongst expectant mothers?
50%
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what % people effected?
24%
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how did it help?
in 2004, it became the first african country to provide free ARV drugs
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name a country that is managing HIV
zimbabwe
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wheres the evidence?
this is the only country that presents a decline the no of cases
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why has the cases reduced?
increased condom use, stepping stones, decline is casual sex
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name a non-communicable disease
cancer
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what % of world diseases are non-communicable?
60%
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what % disease non-comm in HIC's?
86%
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what fraction of deaths are cancer?
1/8
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how many lives worldwide?
7 million
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how many lives by 2020?
12 million
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what are macroeconomic costs?
according to lance armstrong trust, $305 billion
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where is it worst?
USA, 2nd highest killer
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how many lives does it claim in the USA?
560 000 die
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where are the highest death rates?
eastern USA
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how much money was spent in 2009?
228.1 billion
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what % of the global cost?
69%
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what productivity is lost?
1% of GDP
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example of pharmaceutical TNC?
GlaxoSmithKline, UK based
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how much do they spend every hour on research?
£300,000
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what do they claim?
only company to tacke 'WHO priority diseases' such as HIV
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what did it do in 2006 to HIV?
shipped 206 million HIV treatments
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how many deaths are tobacco corporations responsible for?
6 million
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how many cigerttes are produced globally?
5000 billion
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who is has the biggest industry?
China where 350 million smokers consume 1800 cigerettes a year
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what % of market do tobacco TNC's own?
51%
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where is it worst?
Asia and Australia
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what % of worlds consumption do they own?
57%
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what number of deaths will be from developing countries by 2025?
7/10
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why are developing countries targeted?
because they dont have NHS or strict advertising laws
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what did report in 2004 show?
BAT expanded their sales through the encouragement of smuggling
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example of disease of affluence
diabetes
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why is this?
increased car use, less exercise, high sugar diets
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how much is it expected to rise?
by 300 million cases
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what % is it predicted to rise by?
50% in 10 years
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disease of poverty example
FAMINE
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what region is prone to famine?
Sahal region of Africa
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where were there serious famines in 2005?
Chad and Niger
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what has Nahel suffered from?
inadequate water supply since 1970s
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where was badly effected in 2000?
Ethiopia
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what happened?
rains failed that caused a drought affecting 43% of the population
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what resulted?
large influx of farmers to an area with limited water supply and it proved too great a strain
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what resulted?
farmers lost cattle and famine resulted - 50% malnutritionrate in camp denan
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how many deaths are caused by infectious diseases?
10 million
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what % of the population is SSA?`
11%
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what % of global diseases does it have?
24%
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what % of health workers?
3%
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what did the UK government set up?
IHP to help with aid
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who are members?
Ethiopia and zambia
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what did cuba do?
fidel castro, after 1959 revolution, wanted to compare his health system with developed
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cuba's infant mortality?
5.6. LOWER than UsA which is 7.0
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what is their life expectancy?
77- same as USA
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how much did health workers increase by?
tripled - 'doctor on every block' policy
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how did cuba help internationally?
By 2004,1200 Cuban doctors working in countries across Africa
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women life expectancy statistics
women in the north live on average one year lower than those in the south
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men life expectancy in london
on jubilee line, men's life expectancy falls approx 1 year after each stop
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who has highesest male and female life expectancy?
kensignton and chelsea
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who has the lowest male and female life expectancy?
glasgow city
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what chances have men in manchester got of living to 75?
53% chance
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what chance of men in south east england got of living to 75?
71%
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who is the highest consumer of sweets and drinks?
East of england
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differences in london
some areas such as chelsea have highest l/e whereas tower hamlets has low
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