Medical geography

Melinda S. Meade, Michael Emch

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. New to This Edition: thoroughly updated in response to the challenges of globalization, development, and demographic changes incorporates the latest data and conceptual frameworks chapters on neighborhood analysis and the use of GIS in modeling health and disease GIS applications and examples are integrated throughout. This book will be important reading for students and instructors in geography, public health, epidemiology, international health policy and planning, medical sociology, and related fields. It will also serve as a primary text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses such as Medical Geography and Health Geography.

「Nielsen BookData」より

[目次]

  • 1. Questions of Medical Geography. 2. The Human Ecology of Disease and Health. 3. Maps and Geographic Information Systems in Medical Geography. 4. Landscape Epidemiology. 5. Transitions and Development. 6. Climate and Weather: Influences on Health. 7. The Pollution Syndrome. 8. The Political Ecology of Noncommunicable Diseases. 9. Neighborhoods and Health. 10. Disease Diffusion in Space. 11. Health Care and Promotion. 12. Scale, Spatial Analysis, and Geographic Visualization. 13. Concluding Words.

「Nielsen BookData」より

この本の情報

書名 Medical geography
著作者等 Meade, Melinda S.
Meade Melinda
Emch Michael
出版元 Guilford Press
刊行年月 c2010
版表示 3rd ed
ページ数 xii, 498 p., 16 p. of plates
大きさ 27 cm
ISBN 9781606230169
NCID BB04246105
※クリックでCiNii Booksを表示
言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
この本を: 
このエントリーをはてなブックマークに追加

このページを印刷

外部サイトで検索

この本と繋がる本を検索

ウィキペディアから連想