What disease costs a society
Disease costs far more than one sick person. When crops, livestock or workers fall ill, a whole country pays: in lives, in money and in damage to the environment.
By the end of this page you can
- Give examples of plant, animal and human diseases that cost Caribbean countries
- Sort the costs of disease into social, economic and environmental
- Follow a crop disease from one field to the economy
- Define epidemic, pandemic, endemic, productivity and quarantine
- Discuss the social and economic effects of a disease outbreak
Goals tick themselves off as you try the activities below.
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Lethal yellowing, a disease spread by insects, killed millions of coconut palms across Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.
How often it shows up in past papers
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Who pays when disease strikes
Tap each card.
Social, economic, environmental
Tap a cost to see which kind it is.
Which kind?
Pick a cost on the list.
Disease also affects population growth: more deaths and fewer healthy adults slow it down.
A crop disease spreads
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How does the disease arrive?
Six terms to know cold
Say what each term means before you flip the card. Sort every effect as social, economic or environmental.
Six quick questions, then a real one
Pick an answer to see why it’s right or wrong.
Which is an ECONOMIC effect of disease?
Which is a SOCIAL effect of disease?
An ENVIRONMENTAL effect of fighting crop disease is
Black Sigatoka is a disease of
A disease that spreads across many countries is
A dengue outbreak harms an island economy mainly because
exam style · 4 marks
Discuss the social and economic implications of disease in a Caribbean country, using one crop or livestock disease and one human disease.
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