Patterns of disease

  What are the basic questions to ask about patterns of disease at any point in time and space? Describe the relationships between (1) culture and disease; (2) cities and disease; (3) environmental change and disease; and (4) human ecology and disease. What is a “signature disease” of a specific historical time and pattern of geographic connections? How is HIV/AIDS an example of a signature disease? What are arguments for healthcare as a global public good (and as a human right), as opposed to healthcare as an individual, commodified choice?