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Health is the outcome of interaction between physical setting, cultural traits and ecological connection. Explain.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Contemporary Issues

Jacques M. May, who founded the disease-ecology approach in medical geography, argued that disease appears only where a pathogen or deficiency, an environment that sustains it and a human culture that brings people into contact all coincide — remove any one and the outcome vanishes. Andrew Learmonth carried the method into the mapping of India's…

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  • The proposition is disease ecology
  • Physical setting sets the outer envelope
  • Cultural traits decide who meets it
  • Ecological connection keeps changing the terms
  • The interactions, which are the answer

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