Medical Geography, Third Edition / Edition 3 available in Hardcover
Medical Geography, Third Edition / Edition 3
- ISBN-10:
- 1606230166
- ISBN-13:
- 9781606230169
- Pub. Date:
- 04/20/2010
- Publisher:
- Guilford Publications, Inc.
- ISBN-10:
- 1606230166
- ISBN-13:
- 9781606230169
- Pub. Date:
- 04/20/2010
- Publisher:
- Guilford Publications, Inc.
Medical Geography, Third Edition / Edition 3
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ISBN-13: | 9781606230169 |
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Publisher: | Guilford Publications, Inc. |
Publication date: | 04/20/2010 |
Edition description: | Third Edition |
Pages: | 497 |
Product dimensions: | 6.90(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Michael Emch, a medical geographer, is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the Spatial Health Research Group. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology and a fellow of the Carolina Population Center. Dr. Emch has published journal articles on disease ecology, primarily of infectious diseases of the tropical world. He is a member of the Association of American Geographers and is also an advisory editor for the international journal Social Science and Medicine.
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Chapter 1. Questions of Medical Geography
Chapter 2. The Human Ecology of Disease
Chapter 3. Landscape Epidemiology
Chapter 4. Developmental Change and Human Health
Chapter 5. The Biometeorology of Health Status
Chapter 6. The Pollution Syndrome
Chapter 7. Geographies of Disease in Economically Developed Areas
Chapter 8. Disease Diffusion in Space
Chapter 9. Health Care Delivery Systems Worldwide
Chapter 10. Distribution of Health Care Resources
Chapter 11. Accessibility, Utilization, and Health Services Planning
Chapter 12. Data, Measures, and Methodologies
Chapter 13. Scale, Spatial Analysis, and Geographic Visualization
Chapter 14. Concluding Words
Table of Contents
1 Questions of Medical Geography 1
What's in a Name? 2
A Brief History of Medical Geography 9
Definitions and Terminology 17
The Challenge of Medical Geography 21
References 22
Further Reading 24
2 The Human Ecology of Disease 26
Health 27
The Triangle of Human Ecology 30
Transmission and Creation of Infectious Disease 44
Nutrition and Health 55
Conclusion 65
References 65
Further Reading 67
Vignette 2.1 Biological Classifications of Importance to Health 68
3 Maps and Geographic Information Systems in Medical Geography 73
Cartography of Disease 74
Types of Maps: Some Issues 77
Geographic Information Systems 83
Disease Maps on the Web 91
Conclusion 93
References 94
Further Reading 95
4 Landscape Epidemiology 98
Regions 99
Transmissible Disease Systems 100
The Landscape Epidemiology Approach 110
The Cultural Dimension of Water-Based Disease Transmission 116
The Cultural Ecology of Tick-Borne and Other Transmissible Diseases 131
Regionalization 136
Ecological Complications 138
Conclusion 142
References 142
Further Reading 143
Vignette 4.1 Field Mapping for Landscape Epidemiology 145
5 Transitions and Development 149
Ecologies of Population Change: Multiple Transitions 150
Major Impacts of Population Change 162
Nutrition in Transition 165
The Mobility Transition and Time-Space Geography 168
Disease Ecologies of the Agricultural Frontier 173
Other Development Impacts on Rural Ecologies 180
World Urbanization and Changing Disease Ecologies 184
Globalization of Movements 192
Conclusion: Emerging Diseases in Your Future 195
References 196
Further Reading 199
Vignette 5.1 Age Standardization 201
Vignette 5.2 Microspatial Exposure Analysis 204
6 Climate and Weather: Influences on Health 207
Direct Biometeorological Influences 209
The Influences of the Weather 215
Seasonality of Death and Birth 221
How Climate Change Is Likely to Affect Health and Disease 227
Conclusion 232
References 234
Further Reading 236
Vignette 6.1 Monthly Indexes 236
Vignette 6.2 Seasonality of Birth 238
Vignette 6.3 Physical Zonation of Climates and Biomes 244
7 The Pollution Syndrome 247
Toxic Hazards of Natural and Economic Origins 248
Outdoor Air Pollution 249
Indoor Air Pollution 259
Water Pollution 260
Radioactive Pollution 265
Risk Assessment and Prevention 271
Globalization and the Perception of Health Hazards 272
The Geometry of Hazards, Power, and Policy 274
Conclusion 276
References 276
Further Reading 279
8 Political Ecology of Noncommunicable Diseases 281
The Dimension of Mortality 283
The Poverty Syndrome 288
Race in the Study of Health Risks 292
Gender: Women's Health 294
Causal Reasoning and Epidemiological Design 300
Disease Ecology: Cancer 304
Disease Ecology: Cardiovascular Disease 314
Unknown Etiology and Other Questions 325
The Precautionary Principle and Some Political Ecology of Research 329
Conclusion 333
References 334
Further Reading 337
9 Neighborhoods and Health 339
The Concept of Neighborhood Health 339
Neighborhood Definition and Units 341
Analyzing Neighborhood Effects on Health 345
Effects of the Built Environment on Health 346
The Challenges of Neighborhood Health Studies 347
Conclusion 348
References 348
Further Reading 350
10 Disease Diffusion in Space 351
Terminology 352
Disease Diffusion 358
Modeling Disease Diffusion 359
Influenzas 375
Geographic Approaches to the Pandemic of AIDS 380
Other Epidemics 398
References 398
Further Reading 401
Vignette 10.1 Diffusion Waves or Stochastic Simulation of Individual Contact? 403
11 Health Care and Promotion 407
Asclepius: Provision of Medical Care 409
Asclepius Unrobed: Cultural Alternatives and Perceptions 431
Hygeia: Health Promotion 442
References 444
Further Reading 447
Vignette 11.1 Application of Spatial Statistics to Health Care Delivery 448
12 Scale, Spatial Analysis, and Geographic Visualization 453
Some Issues of Scale 454
The Ecological Fallacy 454
Scale of Analysis and Units of Observation 455
Sources for Spatial Disease Data 458
Visualizing and Summarizing Disease Distributions 459
Spatial Analysis 463
Spatial Statistics 466
Conclusion 468
References 468
Further Reading 469
Vignette 12.1 Chi-Square Statistical Test 471
Vignette 12.2 Regression Analysis 474
Vignette 12.3 Spatial Autocorrelation 479
13 Concluding Words 483
Index 486
About the Authors 498
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