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Cambridge AS & A Level Geography

14Disease and geography

Disease and geography in Cambridge AS & A Level Geography: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Overview

Paper 4 option (choose two of topics 11-14). The focus is on the environmental, social, economic and political aspects of disease, not the medical and biological detail.

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Lessons

  • The geography of disease: distribution, measures and spatial variation

    40 min

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  • Cholera: a waterborne bacterial disease

    40 min

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  • Influenza: a viral disease

    40 min

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  • Malaria: a vector-borne parasitic disease

    40 min

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  • Monitoring disease and responding to outbreaks

    40 min

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  • Pandemic responses and disease eradication programmes

    45 min

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Disease and geography: sample question

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What is the main route of transmission of cholera?

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