Disease+Detectives

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 * Use investigative skills in the scientific study of disease, injury, health, and disability in populations or groups of people with a focus on the effects of population growth on public health outcomes.**

**2010 Emphasis - Public Health Concerns Related to Population Growth**

 * **Water Quality, Water Pollution, Water Demands**
 * **Sanitation Needs**
 * **Growth of Slums and Household Environment**
 * **Environmental Degradation**
 * **Air Pollution**
 * **Infectious Disease Outbreaks**
 * **Rapid Spread of Disease via Public Transportation and Air Travel**
 * **Food Quality and Food Contamination**
 * **Lack of food in poor nations vs. unhealthy fast food and drinks in technological societies**
 * **Availability of health care for the poor and the aged**
 * **People moving into uninhabited areas = new pathogens such as Lyme Disease and Ebola**
 * Water Quality, Water Pollution, Water Demands
 * Sanitation Needs
 * Growth of Slums and Household Environment
 * Environmental Degradation
 * Air Pollution
 * Infectious Disease Outbreaks
 * Rapid Spread of Disease via Public Transportation and Air Travel
 * Food Quality and Food Contamination
 * Lack of food in poor nations vs. unhealthy fast food and drinks in technological societies
 * Availability of health care for the poor and the aged
 * People moving into uninhabited areas = new pathogens such as Lyme Disease and Ebola

**POPULATION CONCERNS**
http://www.unisci.com/stories/20011/0108014.htm http://dieoff.org/page165.htm -- population growth and environmental degradation http://www.mclph.umn.edu/watersedge/ -- Outbreak at Watersedge Online Game http://www.buffetbusters.ca/ -- Buffet Busters online game

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0072437316/29064/infectiousdisease.pdf = Center for Disease Control = http://www.cdc.gov/excite/disease_detectives/compete.htm

**LIST OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES **

COMMON DISEASES
 * http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~lrm22/lessons/disease/disease_table.html **

[|http://www.sciencemystery.com]
 * GAME **

http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/C02.html [|**http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/**]
 * VIRAL DISEASES **
 * BACTERIAL DISEASES **

GENETIC DISEASES

**[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_disorders]** [|**]

EXCITE Disease Detectives**http://www.cdc.gov/excite/disease_detectives/index.htm