Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Improving Public Health
(in Africa)
- Climate
- 90% of tropical diseases occur in Africa
- organisms that cause diseases thrive on tropical
weather
- insects that carry diseases thrive on tropical
weather
- Disease
- malaria
- carried by mosquitos
- causes flu-like symptoms
- began as an epidemic, then became a pandemic
- can be treated
- draining or treating water where insects breed
- sleeping under mosquito nets treated
with chemicals to kill insects
- some are infectious (spread rapidly)
- Poverty
- contributes to the spread of disease
- lack of money
(cannot buy...)
- mosquito nets
- screened windows
- technology for draining insect breeding grounds
- raises the rates of other infections
- overcrowding
- poor sanitation
- contaminated water
- The Fight Against Disease
- common diseases
- malaria
- HIV/AIDS
- yellow fever
- vaccines
- treatments designed to
increase immunity, or
resistance, to a particular
disease
- organizations are helping to find cures
for diiseases
- non-profits
- Malaria No More
- World Health Center
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation