Question

Using specific examples explain how these disease burdens vary between :

(i) sexes and

(ii) between low-income and high-income countries

Answer 1

i)Sex plays an important role in the development of diseases or disease burden.Usually women are more prone for disease.Till age 5 sex doesn't forms a burden for disease.But from age 5 yo 29 years the females are more for ininfection due to developmental changes both physically and mentally.

Men at certain age are at high risk for heart diseases, stroke hypertension, diabetes due to life styles

ii)The low income countries usually do not initiate any new program rather encourages the public to go for it like vaccinations which in most if the situations are not affordable,the cost of treatment can be very higher for low income group to get a quality affordable services.

The high income country meet the medical expense of the public usually through Meficlaims

Thus the income rate depends and directly causes a disease burden