Medical Geography

Author : Michael Emch
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462528961
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health and Medical Geography written by Michael Emch and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are rainfall, carcinogens, and primary care physicians distributed unevenly over space? The fourth edition of the leading text in the field has been updated and reorganized to cover the latest developments in disease ecology and health promotion across the globe. The book accessibly introduces the core questions and perspectives of health and medical geography and presents cutting-edge techniques of mapping and spatial analysis. It explores the intersecting genetic, ecological, behavioral, cultural, and socioeconomic processes that underlie patterns of health and disease in particular places, including how new diseases and epidemics emerge. Geographic dimensions of health care access and service provision are addressed. More than 100 figures include 16 color plates; most are available as PowerPoint slides at the companion website. New to This Edition: *Chapters on the political ecology of health; emerging infectious diseases and landscape genetics; food, diet, and nutrition; and urban health. *Coverage of Middle East respiratory syndrome, Ebola, and Zika; impacts on health of global climate change; contaminated water crises in economically developed countries, including in Flint, Michigan; China's rapid industrial growth; and other timely topics. *Updated throughout with current data and concepts plus advances in GIS. Pedagogical Features: *End-of-chapter review questions and suggestions for further reading. *Section Introductions that describe each chapter. *"Quick Reviews"--within-chapter recaps of key concepts. *Bold-faced key terms and an end-of-book glossary.

Author : Tim Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405170034
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Health and Medical Geography written by Tim Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides a comprehensive account of health and medical geography and approaches the major themes and key topics from a variety of angles. Offers a unique breadth of topics relating to both health and medical geography Includes contributions from a range of scholars from rising stars to established, internationally renowned authors Provides an up-to-date review of the state of the sub-discipline Thematically organized sections offer detailed accounts of specific issues and combine general overviews of the current literature with case study material Chapters cover topics at the cutting edge of the sub-discipline, including emerging and re-emerging diseases, the politics of disease, mental and emotional health, landscapes of despair, and the geography of care

Author : Kelvyn Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000577333
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health, Disease and Society written by Kelvyn Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987 this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly developing field of medical geography. It illustrates the ideas, methods and debates that inform contemporary approaches to the subject, demonstrating the potential of a social and environmental approach to illness and health. The central theme is the need to reject an exclusively biological approach to health. The authors examine both the geography of health care and outline a selection of health service planning initiatives in both North America and Europe.

Author : Prestige Tatenda Makanga
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303063471X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practicing Health Geography written by Prestige Tatenda Makanga and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume uniquely presents case studies on health geography in Africa, and analyzes health practices in different African regions to illustrate a unified perspective to the geographies of health. The book describes various contemporary and traditional themes that have characterized the discipline of health geography, and uses its 13 case studies across 14 chapters to challenge the perceived dichotomy between health geography and medical geography among health researchers and practitioners. In 3 sections, the book provides readers with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to understanding health geography in Africa. The first chapter introduces the major theories and perspectives in health geography, and how these characteristics apply to health geography practices in Africa. Section 1 discusses the different uses of space-based analyses in health geography, including geo-data infrastructures, geographies of disease burden, spatial epidemiology, spatially precise public health, and spatial access to health. Section 2 discusses the different uses of place-based analyses in health geography, including health representation, healthcare access, food allergies, and health determinants. Section 3 addresses how geography is incorporated into decision processes in Africa, and how policy planning shapes health-related interventions at the population and individual level. The case studies here discuss geo-enabling health records, health policy, public health planning, and mobile health geographies.

Author : John Eyles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138998100
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Geography of Medicine and Health written by John Eyles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1983, drawing material from Europe, the USA, the Soviet Union and the Developing World, provides a comprehensive review of the key issues in medical geography. It sets the central problems of medical geography in a broad social context as well as in a spatial one and analyses changing conceptions of health and illness in detail. It also explores the pathological relationship between people and their environment and illustrates that social phenomena form spatial patterns which provide a good starting point for the examination of the relationship between medicine, health and society.

Author : Tim Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444314779
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Health and Medical Geography written by Tim Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides a comprehensive account of health and medical geography and approaches the major themes and key topics from a variety of angles. Offers a unique breadth of topics relating to both health and medical geography Includes contributions from a range of scholars from rising stars to established, internationally renowned authors Provides an up-to-date review of the state of the sub-discipline Thematically organized sections offer detailed accounts of specific issues and combine general overviews of the current literature with case study material Chapters cover topics at the cutting edge of the sub-discipline, including emerging and re-emerging diseases, the politics of disease, mental and emotional health, landscapes of despair, and the geography of care

Author : N. D. McGlashan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138100107
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Geography written by N. D. McGlashan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind when originally published in 1972, this book discusses techniques, types of maps and atlases, case histories illustrations of both disease incidence and distribution of medical services, and some examples of theoretical models linked with practical work. It shows the importance of medical geography as a research tool in preparing and collecting data concerning the incidence of disease. In the light of the recent Ebola outbreak, this book is of continued relevance, with some of the chapters focussing on Malawi, Zambia, Ghana and other African countries.

Author : Pavlos Kanaroglou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317051580
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spatial Analysis in Health Geography written by Pavlos Kanaroglou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting current research on spatial epidemiology, this book covers topics such as exposure, chronic disease, infectious disease, accessibility to health care settings and new methods in Geographical Information Science and Systems. For epidemiologists, and for the management and administration of health care settings, it is critical to understand the spatial dynamics of disease. For instance, it is crucial that hospital administrators develop an understanding of the flow of patients over time, especially during an outbreak of a particular disease, so they can plan for appropriate levels of staffing and to carry out adaptive prevention measures. Furthermore, understanding where and why a disease occurs at a certain geographic location is vital for decision makers to formulate policy to increase the accessibility to health services (either by prevention, or adding new facilities). Spatial epidemiology relies increasingly on new methodologies, such as clustering algorithms, visualization and space-time modelling, the domain of Geographic Information Science. Implementation of those techniques appears at an increasing pace in commercial Geographic Information Systems, alongside more traditional techniques that are already part of such systems. This book provides the latest methods in GI Science and their use in health related problems.

Author : Valorie A. Crooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351598538
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Health Geography written by Valorie A. Crooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The places of our daily life affect our health, well-being, and receipt of health care in complex ways. The connection between health and place has been acknowledged for centuries, and the contemporary discipline of health geography sets as its core mission to uncover and explicate all facets of this connection. The Routledge Handbook of Health Geography features 52 chapters from leading international thinkers that collectively characterize the breadth and depth of current thinking on the health–place connection. It will be of interest to students seeking an introduction to health geography as well as multidisciplinary health scholars looking to explore the intersection between health and place. This book provides a coherent synthesis of scholarship in health geography as well as multidisciplinary insights into cutting-edge research. It explores the key concepts central to appreciating the ways in which place influences our health, from the micro-space of the body to the macro-scale of entire world regions, in order to articulate historical and contemporary aspects of this influence.

Author : Sarojini Pacholi
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
ISBN 13 : 9788172110413
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Geography of Malaria in Madhya Pradesh written by Sarojini Pacholi and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 1993 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical Geography is a scientific discipline which links medicine with Geography. It is concerned with systematic study of spatial distribution of diseases in the backdrop of geographical conditions in order to find out answers to ‘where’ and ‘why’ of diseases. In India no disease has taken toll of such a large number of human beings as Malaria. Moreover, it steps the vitality of millions of people and forces them towards poverty.