World Health Key Terms & Issues (PDF)

## Chapter 2 Key Terms: World Health | Key Terms | Definitions | |---|---| | Field Missions | A group of people who have been sent to a foreign country to carry out an official task. | | Revolutionary | A person who works for or arranges a change in secrecy. | | Concelenme | A situation in which ev...

## Chapter 2 Key Terms: World Health | Key Terms | Definitions | |---|---| | Field Missions | A group of people who have been sent to a foreign country to carry out an official task. | | Revolutionary | A person who works for or arranges a change in secrecy. | | Concelenme | A situation in which events happen at the same time in a way that is not planned. | | SARS | A serious disease that is caused by a virus & that affects your ability to breathe. | | Epidemiologist | A person who studies how diseases spread and can be controlled. | ## Lesson #1: Factors that Affect the Health of People Worldwide ### Cause & Consequence Chains #### 1. Climate Change Increase in average temperature leads to shrinking ice in the Arctic and decreasing seal populations. These factors affect fruit hunting methods. Without enough food to eat, starvation sets in, making the population more likely to get sick. #### 2. Flooding Flooding leads to polluted drinking water. This causes a natural disaster that affects the health of users. ## Lesson #1: Factors that Affect the Health of People Worldwide ### Cause & Consequence Chains #### 3. Drought Lack of run leads to crops failing which causes famine. Stravation follows, causing the inability to fight infections. Sicknesses, in turn, lead to death. #### 4. Lack of Access & Treatment Poor economic conditions result in poverty. This increases the lack of access to and treatment resulting in probable death due to diseases. ## Some Health Issues around the World: | Location | Health Issue | Questions I Have | |---|---|---| | Canada | Diabetes | Is most of it type 1 or type 2 | | Haiti | Cholera | Which specific bacteria did it spread to? | | Colombia & Ecuador | Onchoceriasis (river blindness) | Can you only get it from river water or other types of water? | | Guinea | Ebola Virus | Is this still in the west | | Russia | Cardiovascular Disease | How much can sugar do to make people get this disease? | | Italy | High Cholesterol | Does the meat diet in the world affect this disease? | | Indonesia | E coli bacteria | Does other bacteria cause this? | ## Chapter 2 ### Lesson #2: Analyzing Maps **Latitude and Longitude** Latitude and longitude form a geographic coordinate system that describes a location on the Earth. * **Latitude** (North/South) Latitude varies from 0° at the equator to 90° North and South at the poles. * **Longitude** (East/West) Latitude varies from 0° at Greenwich to 180° East and West. * **Latitude:** Varies at the equator to 90° North South Pole * **Longitude:** Varies from 0° at Greenwich to 180° East and West. **Prime Meridian** The _______ is the line of longitude that divides the Eastern Hemisphere from the Western Hemisphere. Which continents lie in the Eastern Hemisphere? ______, ______, ______, ______. **Equator** The ______ is the line of latitude that divides the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere. Which two continents lie completely in the Southern Hemisphere? ______ and ______.