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Quick questions on Development and health: indicators and disease - SQA Higher Geography
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What is causes and spread?Show answer
Malaria is caused by a Plasmodium parasite carried by the female Anopheles mosquito, which breeds in warm, stagnant water, so it thrives across tropical regions, especially sub-Saharan Africa, during and after the wet season.
What is impact?Show answer
Malaria caused over deaths in 2022, mostly young children in Africa, and weakens millions more; sick workers and pupils miss work and school, healthcare costs rise, and the loss of productivity holds back development in the worst-affected countries.
What is management?Show answer
Strategies include insecticide-treated bed nets, draining or treating stagnant water to remove breeding sites, indoor residual spraying, anti-malarial drugs, new vaccines (RTS,S, rolled out from 2021), and education on prevention, all delivered most effectively through low-cost, community-based primary health care.
What is q1?Show answer
Explain why a single economic indicator may not be a valid measure of development. [4 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
For a disease you have studied, describe the strategies used to manage it. [4 marks]
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