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ZIMSEC A-Level Geography

8.3Population health and diseases

Population health and diseases in ZIMSEC A-Level Geography: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives

What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.

  1. 8.3.1Identify diseases that affect population (cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, cancer) and outline their effects.
  2. 8.3.2Explain scientific ways of preventing and curing them and assess indigenous ways.

Lessons

  • Cholera: a waterborne bacterial disease

    40 min

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  • Diseases affecting the population of Zimbabwe: HIV/AIDS, TB, Ebola, cancer and prevention

    45 min

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  • Malaria: a vector-borne parasitic disease

    40 min

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Population health and diseases: sample question

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What is the main route of transmission of cholera?

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