Addressing the ways in which our modern, sedentary lifestyles affect our health, this book addresses both innovative new methods for measuring the relationships between health and environment and proposes future research directions.
Addressing the ways in which our modern, sedentary lifestyles affect our health, this book addresses both innovative new methods for measuring the relationships between health and environment and proposes future research directions.
"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 polit…
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.
Spatial epidemiology is the description and analysis of the geographical distribution of disease. It is more important now than ever, with modern threats such as bio-terrorism making such analysis even more complex. This second edition of Statistical Methods in Spatial Epidemiol…
Growing public awareness of environmental hazards has increased the demand for investigations into the geographical distribution of disease. Data resulting from studies is not always straightforward to interpret and An Introductory Guide to Disease Mapping aims to explain the ba…
