Medical geography

by Meade, Melinda S.

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Title Statements

Full title :Medical geography / Melinda S. Meade, Michael Emch.

Summary

"The leading text in the field, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to geographic approaches to studying disease and promoting health. It presents cutting-edge 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. 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."--Provided by the publisher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2010
Edition:Third edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The Guilford Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 498 pages, 16 pages of plates) : : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781606236925, 160623692X
oclc:ocn609863660
LC Classification:RA792
Dewey Decimal:614.42

Questions of medical geography -- Human ecology of disease -- Maps and geographic information systems in medical geography -- Landscape epidemiology -- Transitions and development -- Climate and weather influences on health -- The pollution syndrome -- Political ecology of noncommunicable diseases -- Neighborhoods and health -- Disease diffusion in space -- Health care and promotion -- Scale, spatial analysis, and geographic visualization.

Subjects

Delivery of Health Care Epidemiologie Epidemiology Géographie médicale Geography MEDICAL -- Epidemiology MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment Medical care Medical geography Prestation de soins Topography, Medical