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INFLUENCE OF POLITIC,SOCIAL &

ECONOMY ON MALARIA RESEARCH,
PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
 POLITICAL INFLUENCE ON
MALARIA
Politics can affect the interventions in fighting malaria both positively and
negatively:
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POLITICAL INSTABILITY
1) affects the health systems since resources will not be adequately
distributed.
2) people in conflict zones struggle to put food on the table so health
treatment becomes less of a priority.
3) Donor agencies tend to steer funding away from politically unstable areas,
further reducing the availability of treatment and prevention resources.
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POLICIES
political influence can help set policies which
can help in dealing with malaria for example
screening all immigrants and treating them.
 SOCIAL INFLUENCE ON
MALARIA
Behavior of individuals and groups will determine
whether efforts to deal with malaria will work on not:
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RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL BELIEFS
some beliefs will hinder people from accessing
health services thereby depriving them any
vaccines or treatment.
 ECONOMIC INFLUENCE ON
MALARIA
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ACCESSIBILITY
economic status of an individual will determine the quality of
treatment to be received,paying for hospital bills is often hard for
people of low social economic status.
it is very rare to see people of low economic status buying
mosquito nets and it just happens that they are the most
vulnerable to suffer from malaria because they lack protection at
the same time they live in areas where malaria is a burden.