Medical geography
Provides a comprehensive introduction to geographic approaches to studying disease and promoting health. This book presents various techniques of spatial and social analysis and explores their relevance for understanding cultural and political ecology, disease systems, and public health issues across the globe.
498 p. : il. ; 25 cm
9781606230169, 1606230166
913028076
1. Questions of Medical Geography2. The Human Ecology of Disease and Health3. Maps and Geographic Information Systems in Medical Geography4. Landscape Epidemiology5. Transitions and Development6. Climate and Weather: Influences on Health7. The Pollution Syndrome8. The Political Ecology of Noncommunicable Diseases9. Neighborhoods and Health10. Disease Diffusion in Space11. Health Care and Promotion12. Scale, Spatial Analysis, and Geographic Visualization13. Concluding Words
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