HEALTH ISSUES
Health Issues- the syllabus
SUBJECT CONTENT
Health Issues
Global patterns of health, morbidity and mortality: health in world affairs.
The study of one infectious disease
(eg malaria, HIV/ Aids),
its global distribution and its impact on health, economic development
and lifestyle.
The study of one ‘disease of affl uence’ (eg coronary disease,
cancer), its global distribution and its impact on health, economic development
and lifestyle.
Food and health – malnutrition, periodic famine, obesity. Contrasting
health care approaches in countries at different stages of development.
Health matters in a globalising world economy – transnational corporations
and pharmaceutical research, production and distribution; tobacco transnationals.
Regional variations in health and morbidity in the UK.
Factors affecting regional variations in health and morbidity –
age structure, income and occupation type, education, environment and
pollution.
Age, gender, wealth and their infl uence on access to facilities for exercise,
health care and good nutrition.
A local case study on the implications of the above
for the provision of health care systems.
