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An Introduction to the Geography of Health

Author : Helen Hazen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135999333
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Geography of Health written by Helen Hazen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health issues such as the emergence of infectious diseases, the potential influence of global warming on human health, and the escalating strain of increasing longevity and chronic conditions on healthcare systems are of growing importance in an increasingly peopled and interconnected world. A geographic approach to the study of health offers a critical perspective to these issues, considering how changing relationships between people and their environments influence human health. An Introduction to the Geography of Health provides an accessible introduction to this rapidly growing field, covering theoretical and methodological background. The text is divided into three sections which consider distinct approaches and techniques related to health geographies. Section one introduces ecological approaches, with a focus on how natural and built environments affect human health. For instance, how have irrigation projects influenced the spread of water-borne diseases? How can modern healthcare settings, such as hospitals, affect the spread and evolution of pathogens? Section two discusses social aspects of health and healthcare, considering health as not merely a biological interaction between a pathogen and human host, but as a process that is situated among social factors which ultimately drive who suffers from what, and where disease occurs. Section three then considers spatial techniques and approaches to exploring health, giving special focus to the growing role of cartography and geographic information systems (GIS) in the study of health. This clearly written text contains a range of pedagogical features including a wealth of global case studies, discussion questions and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, a colour plate section and over eighty diagrams and figures. The accompanying website also provides presentations, exercises, further resources, and tables and figures. This book is an essential introductory text for undergraduate students studying Geography, Health and Social Studies.

Routledge Handbook of Health Geography

Author : Valorie A. Crooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351598538
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Health Geography written by Valorie A. Crooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The places of our daily life affect our health, well-being, and receipt of health care in complex ways. The connection between health and place has been acknowledged for centuries, and the contemporary discipline of health geography sets as its core mission to uncover and explicate all facets of this connection. The Routledge Handbook of Health Geography features 52 chapters from leading international thinkers that collectively characterize the breadth and depth of current thinking on the health–place connection. It will be of interest to students seeking an introduction to health geography as well as multidisciplinary health scholars looking to explore the intersection between health and place. This book provides a coherent synthesis of scholarship in health geography as well as multidisciplinary insights into cutting-edge research. It explores the key concepts central to appreciating the ways in which place influences our health, from the micro-space of the body to the macro-scale of entire world regions, in order to articulate historical and contemporary aspects of this influence.

Health Geographies

Author : Tim Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118739027
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Health Geographies written by Tim Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction explores health and biomedical topics from a range of critical geographic perspectives. Building on the field’s past engagement with social theory it extends the focus of health geography into new areas of enquiry. Introduces key topics in health geography through clear and engaging examples and case studies drawn from around the world Incorporates multi-disciplinary perspectives and approaches applied in the field of health geography Identifies both health and biomedical issues as a central area of concern for critically oriented health geographers Features material that is alert to questions of global scale and difference, and sensitive to the political and economic as well sociocultural aspects of health Provides extensive pedagogic materials within the text and guidance for further study

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Author : Tim Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405170034
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Health and Medical Geography written by Tim Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO HEALTH AND MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY A Companion to Health and Medical Geography provides an essential starting point for anyone interested in studying the role of geography and of geographers, both past and present, in promoting an understanding of issues relating to health and illness. Whilst thoroughly mapping out the territory covered by the sub-discipline and examining changes in focus and terminology, this book offers a discussion of the major themes from differing methodological and theoretical perspectives. Questions of class, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexuality are covered throughout the text and case studies within chapters draw upon scholarship from around the globe in order to illuminate key points. Organized to promote dialogue and encourage health and medical geographers to rethink sub-disciplinary boundaries, this Companion provides a unique account of the history of the field and its future potential and possibilities.

Health and Medical Geography

Author : Michael Emch
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462528961
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Health and Medical Geography written by Michael Emch and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 change; 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. 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.

Introduction to Human Geography

Author : David Dorrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940771601
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Human Geography written by David Dorrell and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Introduction to Health Geography

Author : HUMPHREY NGALA. NDI
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912362288
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Health Geography written by HUMPHREY NGALA. NDI and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Introduction to the Geography of Tourism

Author : Velvet Nelson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442271094
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Geography of Tourism written by Velvet Nelson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism is an astonishingly complex phenomenon that is becoming an ever-greater part of life in today’s global world. This clear and engaging text introduces undergraduate students to this vast and diverse subject through the lens of geography, the only field with the breadth to consider all of the aspects, activities, and perspectives that constitute tourism. Indeed, geography and tourism have always been interconnected, and Velvet Nelson reinforces the relationship between them by using both human and physical geography to interpret all facets of tourism—economic, social, and environmental. She shows how geography provides the tools and concepts to consider both the positive and negative factors that affect tourists and destinations as well as the effects tourism has on both peoples and places. Her real-world case studies, based both on research and on the experiences of tourists themselves, vividly illustrate key issues. This comprehensive, thematically organized introduction will enhance students’ understanding of geographic concepts and how they can be used as a way of viewing and understanding the world.

Introduction to Human Geography: A Disciplinary Approach

Author : Steven Graves
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387806025
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Human Geography: A Disciplinary Approach written by Steven Graves and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed for use in survey courses on US Geography, Introduction to Human or Cultural Geography. It is free of charge online, or the minimum cost permissible by the printer for the print version. Print version of the Second Edition of the text by Professor Graves.

An Introduction to Physical Geography and the Environment

Author : Joseph Holden
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 9780131753044
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Physical Geography and the Environment written by Joseph Holden and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2008 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this best-selling and highly respected textbook provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the major topics within physical geography. An Introduction to Physical Geography and the Environment is designed with a range of in-text features such as case studies and reflective questions to aid study. As well as this, students have access to a rich and extensive range of online support resources such as extra weblinks, fieldwork worksheets, interactive models and new video clips of physical processes in action, all of which will help them achieve success in their Physical Geography course.

A Student′s Introduction to Geographical Thought

Author : Pauline Couper
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473911311
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book A Student′s Introduction to Geographical Thought written by Pauline Couper and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ism-busting text is an enormously accessible account of the key philosophical and theoretical ideas that have informed geographical research. It makes abstract ideas explicit and clearly connects it with real practices of geographical research and knowledge. Written with flair and passion, A Student′s Introduction to Geographical Thought: Explains the key ideas: scientific realism, anti-realism and idealism / positivism / critical rationalism / Marxism and critical realism/ social constructionism and feminism / phenomenology and post-phenomenology / postmodernism and post-structuralism / complexity / moral philosophy. Uses examples that address both physical geography and human geography. Use a familiar and real-world example - ‘the beach’ - as an entry point to basic questions of philosophy, returning to this to illustrate and to explain the links between philosophy, theory, and methodology. All chapters end with summaries and sources of further reading, a glossary explaining key terms, exercises with commentaries, and web resources of key articles from the journals Progress in Human Geography and Progress in Physical Geography. A Student′s Introduction to Geographical Thought is a completely accessible student A-Z of theory and practice for both human and physical geography.

Health, Disease and Society

Author : Kelvyn Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032254005
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Health, Disease and Society written by Kelvyn Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987 this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly developing field of medical geography. It illustrates the ideas, methods and debates that inform contemporary approaches to the subject, demonstrating the potential of a social and environmental approach to illness and health. The central theme is the need to reject an exclusively biological approach to health. The authors examine both the geography of health care and outline a selection of health service planning initiatives in both North America and Europe.

Understanding the Changing Planet

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309150752
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Changing Planet written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the oceans to continental heartlands, human activities have altered the physical characteristics of Earth's surface. With Earth's population projected to peak at 8 to 12 billion people by 2050 and the additional stress of climate change, it is more important than ever to understand how and where these changes are happening. Innovation in the geographical sciences has the potential to advance knowledge of place-based environmental change, sustainability, and the impacts of a rapidly changing economy and society. Understanding the Changing Planet outlines eleven strategic directions to focus research and leverage new technologies to harness the potential that the geographical sciences offer.

The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography

Author : Mona Domosh
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1529738660
Total Pages : 1619 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography written by Mona Domosh and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 1619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical geography is an active, theoretically-informed and vibrant field of scholarly work within modern geography, with strong and constantly evolving connections with disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Across two volumes, The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography provides you with an an international and cross-disciplinary overview of the field, presenting chapters that examine the history, present condition and future potential of the discipline in relation to recent developments and research.

Human Geography: A Serious Introduction

Author : Barney Warf
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516529025
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Human Geography: A Serious Introduction written by Barney Warf and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written specifically for freshman-level human geography courses, Human Geography: A Serious Introduction gives students a thorough, rigorous grounding in the subject and its historical, economic, political, cultural, and urban dimensions. The book addresses early cultures, languages, religion, the rise of capitalism, and globalization as components of human geographical systems. Human Geography also explores developed and underdeveloped societies, population, political geography, urban geography, agriculture, manufacturing, and services. The book closes with a chapter on geography-related careers. Each chapter includes a preview of the main points, a post-reading summary, a glossary of key terms, and study questions to be used for in-class discussions or as writing assignments. Through reading Human Geography students gain a historically contextualized understanding of how the world's geographies have been formed, from hunting and gathering societies to cyberspace. Barney Warf is a professor of geography at the University of Kansas. He holds a Ph.D in geography from the University of Washington and is particularly interested in regional development including timber interests, ports, and commercial real estate trends. Dr. Warf has co-authored three geography textbooks and numerous book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and journal articles. His most recent book is Global Geographies of the Internet, and his professional writing has appeared in Geographical Review, the Journal of Geography in Higher Education, and Urban Geography. He is a member of the Association of American Geographers and the International Geographical Union.

An Introduction to Human Geography

Author : Peter Daniels
Publisher : Pearson Higher Ed
ISBN 13 : 1292082984
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Human Geography written by Peter Daniels and published by Pearson Higher Ed. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth edition of this widely used text provides a global overview of the major topics within human geography, including food security and population, geopolitics and territory, inequality and power, production, consumption, the global financial system, governance and now a new chapter on citizenship. Substantial and comprehensively updated chapters ensure balanced treatment across the range of contemporary human geography.

Medical Geography

Author : N. D. McGlashan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138100107
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Medical Geography written by N. D. McGlashan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind when originally published in 1972, this book discusses techniques, types of maps and atlases, case histories illustrations of both disease incidence and distribution of medical services, and some examples of theoretical models linked with practical work. It shows the importance of medical geography as a research tool in preparing and collecting data concerning the incidence of disease. In the light of the recent Ebola outbreak, this book is of continued relevance, with some of the chapters focussing on Malawi, Zambia, Ghana and other African countries.