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Running head: HEALTH 1 Communicable Diseases Name Institutional affiliation Date HEALTH 2 A communicable disease is a disease caused by microorganisms and which can be spread either directly or indirectly from one individual to another. The causative agents can be transmitted through ingestion of contaminated food and water such as typhoid and cholera or insect bites for example malaria. Diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy are usually spread through coughing, sneezing or mucus on hands. Social determinants of health are “the conditions in which people are born and brought up, including the physical forces that work to share this process.” (WHO). The conditions are usually influenced by financial and social factors. Social determinants as their definition suggest play a direct role in the spread of communicable diseases as they expose people to the causative agents of the disease (Marmot 2005). People working in irrigated regions, for example, are usually exposed to the risk of contracting malaria since the marshy areas provide an ideal breeding ground for the female Anopheles mosquitoes which carries the Plasmodium parasite which causes malaria. Also, people that dw ...
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