Medical geography

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In this book the authors present biological information for geographers to understand disease processes and geographical concepts to inform health researchers about spatial approaches to disease.

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Title Statements

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

Summary

In this book the authors present biological information for geographers to understand disease processes and geographical concepts to inform health researchers about spatial approaches to disease.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2010.
Edition:3rd ed

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 498 pages, 16 pages of plates : : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; : 27 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781606230169, 1606230166
oclc:ocn460059581
LC Classification:RA792
Dewey Decimal:614.4/2

Questions of medical geography -- The 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 Geomedizin Medical care Medical geography Medicinsk geografi Prestation de soins Topography, Medical