CULTURE HEALTH & ILLNESS OUTLINE

THEME 2: HUMAN HEALTH & ILLNESS IN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE

1. Human Evolution & Disease Change (The Great Epidemiology Transition)

• Evolution of the Planet
• Evolution of Disease within the Human Body

2. First Epidemiological Transition

• Agricultural Revolution & the spread of Disease

3. Second Epidemiological Transition

• Industrial Revolution & the spread of New Diseases
• Modern Chronic Diseases