A companion to health and medical geography /

"This Companion provides a comprehensive account of health and medical geography and approaches the major themes and key topics from a variety of angles.: Offers a unique breadth of topics relating to both health and medical geography; Includes contributions from a range of scholars from rising...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brown, Tim, 1968-, McLafferty, Sara, 1951-, Moon, Graham, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Colección:Blackwell companions to geography ; 8.
Temas:
Medical geography.
Environmental health.
Public health.
Topography, Medical
Environmental Health
Public Health
Géographie médicale.
Hygiène du milieu.
Santé publique.
public health.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL > Epidemiology.
Public health
Environmental health
Medical geography
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction to Health and Medical Geography / Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty and Graham Moon
  • pt. I. Debates in Health and Medical Geography
  • 2. Health Geography / Robin Kearns and Damian Collins
  • 3. Medical Geography / Jonathan D. Mayer
  • 4. Doubting Dualisms / Michael L. Dorn, Carla C. Keirns and Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr.
  • pt. II. Disease
  • 5. Disease, Ecology, and Environment / Joseph R. Oppong and Adam Harold
  • 6. Mapping Disease / Stepbane Rican and Gerard Salem
  • 7. Infectious Disease Diffusion / Clive E. Sabel, Dennis Pringle and Anders Schaerstrom
  • 8. Modeling Chronic Diesease / Myles Gould
  • 9. Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases / Michael Emch and Elisabeth D. Root
  • 10. Situating Politics in Health and Medical Geography / Courtney J. Donovan and R. Ian Duncan
  • 11. Living with and Experiencing Disease / Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr.
  • pt. III. Health and Wellbeing
  • 12. Therapeutic Landscapes as Health Promoting Places / Allison M. Williams
  • 13." ... a Penis is Not Needed in Order to Pee": Sex and Gender in Health Geography / Matt Sothern and Isabel Dyck
  • 14. Impairment and Disability / Vera Chouinard
  • 15. Mental and Emotional Health / Hester Parr and Joyce Davidson
  • 16. Landscapes of Despair / Geoffrey DeVerteuil and Josh Evans
  • 17. Representing the Un/healthy Body / Susan Craddock and Tim Brown
  • pt. IV. Public Health and Health Inequalities
  • 18. Health Geography and Public Health / Sarah Curtis, Mylene Riva and Mark Rosenberg
  • 19. Migration and Health / Paul Boyle and Paul Norman
  • 20. Social Perspectives on Health Inequalities / Vani S. Kulkarni and S.V. Subramanian
  • 21. Neighborhoods and Health / Anne Ellaway and Sally Macintyre
  • 22. Environmental Health Geography of Risk / Michael Jerrett, Sara Gale and Caitlin Kontgis
  • 23. Environment, Perception, and Resistance / Susan J. Elliott
  • 24. Healthy Behavior / Liz Twigg and Lynda Cooper
  • 25. Governing Un/healthy Populations / Tim Brown and Duika L. Burges Watson
  • pt. V. Health Care and Caring
  • 26. Providing Health Care / Ross Barnett and Alison Copeland
  • 27. Accessing Health Care / Thomas C. Ricketts
  • 28. Location-allocation Planning / Frank Tanser, Peter Gething and Peter Atkinson
  • 29. Changing Geography of Care / Christine Milligan and Andrew Power
  • 30. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Production, Consumption, Research / Gavin J. Andrews, Jon Adams and Jeremy Segrott.

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