基本説明
This essential text surveys the perspectives, methodologies, and theories that geographers use to address the subject of human health and disease.
Full Description
The leading text in the field, this comprehensive book reviews geographic approaches to studying disease and public health issues across the globe. It presents cutting-edge techniques of spatial and social analysis and explores their relevance for understanding cultural and political ecology, disease systems, and health promotion. Essential topics include how new diseases emerge and epidemics develop in particular places; the intersecting influences on health of biological processes, culture, environment, and behavior; and the changing landscape of health care planning and service delivery. The text is richly illustrated with tables, figures, and maps, including 16 color plates.
Contents
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
