Book
Health and Medical Geography
The Guilford Press, 4th edition
2017
Abstract
Why are rainfall, carcinogens, and primary care physicians distributed unevenly over space? The fourth edition of the leading text in the field has been updated and reorganized to cover the latest developments in disease ecology and health promotion across the globe. The book accessibly introduces the core questions and perspectives of health and medical geography and presents cutting-edge techniques of mapping and spatial analysis. It explores the intersecting genetic, ecological, behavioral, cultural, and socioeconomic processes that underlie patterns of health and disease in particular places, including how new diseases and epidemics emerge. Geographic dimensions of health care access and service provision are addressed. More than 100 figures include 16 color plates; most are available as PowerPoint slides at the companion website. New to This Edition: *Chapters on the political ecology of health; emerging infectious diseases and landscape genetics; food, diet, and nutrition; and urban health. *Coverage of Middle East respiratory syndrome, Ebola, and Zika; impacts on health of global climate chan≥ contaminated water crises in economically developed countries, including in Flint, Michigan; China's rapid industrial growth; and other timely topics. *Updated throughout with current data and concepts plus advances in GIS. *A range of pedagogical features. Pedagogical Features: *End-of-chapter review questions and suggestions for further reading. *Section Introductions that describe each chapter. *"Quick Reviews"--within-chapter recaps of key concepts. *Bold-faced key terms and an end-of-book glossary. .
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Health and Medical Geography
- Creators
- Michael EmchElisabeth Dowling RootMargaret Carrel - University of Iowa, Epidemiology
- Resource Type
- Book
- Edition
- 4th edition
- Table of contents
- Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Epigraph -- I. Introduction and Big Ideas -- 1. What Is Health and Medical Geography? -- What's in a Name? -- A Brief History of Health and Medical Geography -- Definitions and Terminology -- The Challenge of Health Geography -- Quick Review -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 2. Ecology of Health and Disease -- Disease Agents and Transmission Processes -- The Triangle of Human Ecology -- Quick Review 1 -- Landscape Epidemiology and Vectored Diseases -- Quick Review 2 -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 3. Expanding Disease Ecology: Politics, Economics, and Gender -- Political Ecology -- The Poverty Syndrome -- Race in the Study of Health Risks -- Gender and Sex: Women's Health -- Quick Review 1 -- Causal Reasoning and Epidemiological Design -- HIV and AIDS: Gender, Mobility, and Political Ecology -- The Precautionary Principle and Some Political Ecology of Research -- Quick Review 2 -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 4. Transitions and Development -- Ecologies of Population Change: Multiple Transitions -- Quick Review 1 -- Major Impacts of Population Change -- Environmental Exposures, the Mobility Transition, and Time-Space Geography -- Quick Review 2 -- Disease Ecologies of the Agricultural Frontier -- Other Development Impacts on Rural Ecologies -- Globalization of Movements -- Quick Review 3 -- Conclusion: Emerging Diseases in Your Future -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- II. Maps and Methods -- 5. Maps, GIS, and Spatial Analysis -- Cartography of Health and Disease -- Quick Review 1 -- Geographic Information Systems -- Quick Review 2 -- Spatial Statistics -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 6. Disease Diffusion.; Globalization and the Perception of Health Hazards -- Hazards, Power, Policy, and Environmental Justice -- Quick Review -- Healthy Environments -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 12. Climate and Health -- Direct Biometeorological Influences -- The Influences of the Weather -- Seasonality of Death and Birth -- Physical Zonation of Climates and Biomes -- Climate Change and Health -- Quick Review -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- V. Health Care and Final Thoughts -- 13. Health Services and Access to Care -- What Is Access? -- The Provision of Medical Care -- Quick Review 1 -- Cultural Alternatives and Perceptions -- Quick Review 2 -- Conclusion: Transforming the Health Service Landscape -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 14. Concluding Words -- Review Questions -- Glossary -- Index -- About the Authors.; Diffusion Background -- Epidemiological Background -- Types of Diffusion -- Networks and Barriers -- Quick Review 1 -- Modeling Disease Diffusion -- Influenzas -- Quick Review 2 -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 7. Emerging Infectious Diseases and Landscape Genetics -- What's in a Name?: Emerging, Reemerging, or Always There -- Why Do Diseases Emerge, Reemerge, or Persist? -- Where Can We Expect These Diseases to Emerge/Reemerge? -- How Will These Diseases Behave? -- Landscape Genetics -- Quick Review -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- III. What We Eat and Where We Live -- 8. Food, Diet, and the Nutrition Transition -- From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers -- The Columbian Exchange -- Modern Agricultural Systems -- The Green Revolution -- The Nutrition Transition -- Commercial Agriculture and the Nutrition Transition -- Direct and Indirect Health Effects of Agricultural and Dietary Changes -- Quick Review -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 9. Neighborhoods and Health -- The Concept of Neighborhood Health -- Social Context and Health -- Effects of the Built Environment on Health -- Quick Review 1 -- Opportunities and Challenges in Neighborhood Effects Studies -- Quick Review 2 -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 10. Urban Health -- Cities and Urbanization -- A Brief History of Cities -- Large Cities in the Modern Era -- Developing World Cities: Dickens or a Dream? -- Traffic -- Disappearing Cities? -- Quick Review -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- IV. Environments and Climates -- 11. Environment and Health -- Toxic Hazards -- Outdoor Air Pollution -- Indoor Air Pollution -- Water Pollution -- Sources and Health Effects of Lead -- Risk Assessment and Prevention.; Title Page; I. Introduction and Big Ideas; Further Reading; Effects of the Built Environment on Health; Opportunities and Challenges in Neighborhood Effects Studies; HIV and AIDS: Gender, Mobility, and Political Ecology; Cartography of Health and Disease; Modern Agricultural Systems; III. What We Eat and Where We Live; Race in the Study of Health Risks; The Columbian Exchange; 7. Emerging Infectious Diseases and Landscape Genetics; About the Authors; Developing World Cities: Dickens or a Dream?; Outdoor Air Pollution; The Triangle of Human Ecology; Risk Assessment and Prevention; 12. Climate and Health; 3. Expanding Disease Ecology: Politics, Economics, and Gender; Contents; Globalization and the Perception of Health Hazards; V. Health Care and Final Thoughts; Landscape Genetics; 11. Environment and Health; What's in a Name?: Emerging, Reemerging, or Always There; Where Can We Expect These Diseases to Emerge/Reemerge?; Traffic; Sources and Health Effects of Lead; Other Development Impacts on Rural Ecologies; Toxic Hazards; Preface; Spatial Statistics; Hazards, Power, Policy, and Environmental Justice; A Brief History of Health and Medical Geography; The Provision of Medical Care; Environmental Exposures, the Mobility Transition, and Time–Space Geography; What Is Access?; Epigraph; Modeling Disease Diffusion; Conclusion: Emerging Diseases in Your Future; Seasonality of Death and Birth; Cover; Direct Biometeorological Influences; Disease Agents and Transmission Processes; Why Do Diseases Emerge, Reemerge, or Persist?; Half Title Page; Disease Ecologies of the Agricultural Frontier; What's in a Name?; 14. Concluding Words; Influenzas; 4. Transitions and Development; Review Questions; Index; Healthy Environments; Landscape Epidemiology and Vectored Diseases; Water Pollution; Copyright; Quick Review 2; Quick Review 1; Commercial Agriculture and the Nutrition Transition; Quick Review 3; Conclusion; 5. Maps, GIS, and Spatial Analysis; Epidemiological Background; IV. Environments and Climates; How Will These Diseases Behave?; From Hunter–Gatherers to Farmers; Climate Change and Health; Diffusion Background; 9. Neighborhoods and Health; Cities and Urbanization; 6. Disease Diffusion; Large Cities in the Modern Era; Definitions and Terminology; Glossary; Disappearing Cities?; The Challenge of Health Geography; II. Maps and Methods; Gender and Sex: Women's Health; Quick Review; Geographic Information Systems; The Precautionary Principle and Some Political Ecology of Research; Cultural Alternatives and Perceptions; Direct and Indirect Health Effects of Agricultural and Dietary Changes; 8. Food, Diet, and the Nutrition Transition; Indoor Air Pollution; Political Ecology; Physical Zonation of Climates and Biomes; The Green Revolution; Globalization of Movements; The Poverty Syndrome; Causal Reasoning and Epidemiological Design; 13. Health Services and Access to Care; Types of Diffusion; The Concept of Neighborhood Health; A Brief History of Cities; Conclusion: Transforming the Health Service Landscape; 2. Ecology of Health and Disease; Networks and Barriers; Major Impacts of Population Change; Social Context and Health; 10. Urban Health; The Nutrition Transition; References; The Influences of the Weather; 1. What Is Health and Medical Geography?; Ecologies of Population Change: Multiple Transitions; Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Epigraph -- I. Introduction and Big Ideas -- 1. What Is Health and Medical Geography? -- What's in a Name? -- A Brief History of Health and Medical Geography -- Definitions and Terminology -- The Challenge of Health Geography -- Quick Review -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 2. Ecology of Health and Disease -- Disease Agents and Transmission Processes -- The Triangle of Human Ecology -- Quick Review 1 -- Landscape Epidemiology and Vectored Diseases -- Quick Review 2 -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 3. Expanding Disease Ecology: Politics, Economics, and Gender -- Political Ecology -- The Poverty Syndrome -- Race in the Study of Health Risks -- Gender and Sex: Women's Health -- Quick Review 1 -- Causal Reasoning and Epidemiological Design -- HIV and AIDS: Gender, Mobility, and Political Ecology -- The Precautionary Principle and Some Political Ecology of Research -- Quick Review 2 -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 4. Transitions and Development -- Ecologies of Population Change: Multiple Transitions -- Quick Review 1 -- Major Impacts of Population Change -- Environmental Exposures, the Mobility Transition, and Time-Space Geography -- Quick Review 2 -- Disease Ecologies of the Agricultural Frontier -- Other Development Impacts on Rural Ecologies -- Globalization of Movements -- Quick Review 3 -- Conclusion: Emerging Diseases in Your Future -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- II. Maps and Methods -- 5. Maps, GIS, and Spatial Analysis -- Cartography of Health and Disease -- Quick Review 1 -- Geographic Information Systems -- Quick Review 2 -- Spatial Statistics -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 6. Disease Diffusion; Globalization and the Perception of Health Hazards -- Hazards, Power, Policy, and Environmental Justice -- Quick Review -- Healthy Environments -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 12. Climate and Health -- Direct Biometeorological Influences -- The Influences of the Weather -- Seasonality of Death and Birth -- Physical Zonation of Climates and Biomes -- Climate Change and Health -- Quick Review -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- V. Health Care and Final Thoughts -- 13. Health Services and Access to Care -- What Is Access? -- The Provision of Medical Care -- Quick Review 1 -- Cultural Alternatives and Perceptions -- Quick Review 2 -- Conclusion: Transforming the Health Service Landscape -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 14. Concluding Words -- Review Questions -- Glossary -- Index -- About the Authors; Diffusion Background -- Epidemiological Background -- Types of Diffusion -- Networks and Barriers -- Quick Review 1 -- Modeling Disease Diffusion -- Influenzas -- Quick Review 2 -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 7. Emerging Infectious Diseases and Landscape Genetics -- What's in a Name?: Emerging, Reemerging, or Always There -- Why Do Diseases Emerge, Reemerge, or Persist? -- Where Can We Expect These Diseases to Emerge/Reemerge? -- How Will These Diseases Behave? -- Landscape Genetics -- Quick Review -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- III. What We Eat and Where We Live -- 8. Food, Diet, and the Nutrition Transition -- From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers -- The Columbian Exchange -- Modern Agricultural Systems -- The Green Revolution -- The Nutrition Transition -- Commercial Agriculture and the Nutrition Transition -- Direct and Indirect Health Effects of Agricultural and Dietary Changes -- Quick Review -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 9. Neighborhoods and Health -- The Concept of Neighborhood Health -- Social Context and Health -- Effects of the Built Environment on Health -- Quick Review 1 -- Opportunities and Challenges in Neighborhood Effects Studies -- Quick Review 2 -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- 10. Urban Health -- Cities and Urbanization -- A Brief History of Cities -- Large Cities in the Modern Era -- Developing World Cities: Dickens or a Dream? -- Traffic -- Disappearing Cities? -- Quick Review -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- References -- Further Reading -- IV. Environments and Climates -- 11. Environment and Health -- Toxic Hazards -- Outdoor Air Pollution -- Indoor Air Pollution -- Water Pollution -- Sources and Health Effects of Lead -- Risk Assessment and Prevention
- ISBN
- 9781462528981; 1462528988; 9781462520060; 1462520065
- eISBN
- 9781462528981; 1462528988
- Publisher
- The Guilford Press; New York, NY
- Number of pages
- xvii, 517 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2017
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Interdisciplinary Programs; Geographical and Sustainability Sciences; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983903699402771
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