Medical Geography, Second Edition

Robert J. Earickson, Melinda S. Meade (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

501 Seiten

2005 | 2nd edition
Guilford Publications (Verlag)
978-1-59385-160-6 (ISBN)

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This essential text surveys the perspectives, methodologies, and theories that geographers use to address the subject of human health and disease. Wide ranging and international in scope, the volume synthesizes knowledge from across the social, physical, and biological sciences. Coverage includes the cultural ecology of disease; landscape epidemiology; developmental change and human health; biometeorology; disease ecology and spatial analysis in developed countries; spatial interaction in disease diffusion; health care resources, delivery systems, and planning; and research methodologies and data-analytic techniques. Throughout, clearly presented vignettes examine special issues and demonstrate the use of advanced statistical tools. The text is richly illustrated with tables, figures, and maps, including a four-page color insert.

Melinda S. Meade is a professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also an adjunct professor of epidemiology, a member of the ecology curriculum, and a fellow of the Carolina Population Center. Robert J. Earickson, a medical geographer, is an emeritus professor of geography at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Questions of Medical Geography.The Human Ecology of Disease. Landscape Epidemiology. Developmental Change and Human Health. The Biometeorology of Health Status.The Pollution Syndrome. Geographies of Disease in Economically Developed Areas. Disease Diffusion in Space. Healthcare Delivery Systems Worldwide. Distribution of Healthcare Resources. Accessibility, Utilization and Health Services Planning. Data, Measures and Methodologies. Scale: Spatial analysis, and Geographic Visualization. Concluding Words.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2005
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	558 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10	1-59385-160-X / 159385160X
ISBN-13	978-1-59385-160-6 / 9781593851606
Zustand	Neuware