Table of Contents
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List of
figures |
xi |
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List of
color plates |
xiv |
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List of
tables |
xv |
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List of
boxes |
xvi |
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Preface |
xvii |
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Acknowledgments |
xix |
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List of
commonly used abbreviations |
xx |
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Introduction |
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What is the geography of health? |
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What is health? |
4 |
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Evolving Approaches to health geography |
5 |
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Structure of this book |
7 |
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SECTION I |
ECOLOGICAL
APPROACHES TO HUMAN HEALTH |
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Ecological Approaches To Human Health
And Environmental Change |
13 |
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Ecology of human health |
13 |
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Cultural ecology of disease |
19 |
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Disease cycles |
20 |
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Landscape epidemiology |
21 |
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Environmental change |
28 |
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Conclusion |
32 |
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Demographic Change And Emerging And
Resurgent Infectious Diseases |
33 |
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The demographic and epidemiologic transitions |
33 |
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Pathogen and vector populations |
38 |
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Emerging and resurgent infectious diseases |
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Case studies of emerging and resurgent infectious diseases |
46 |
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Conclusion |
54 |
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Environmental Exposures |
56 |
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Non-living agents of disease |
57 |
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Assessing environmental exposures |
65 |
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Environmental justice |
70 |
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Conclusion |
75 |
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SECTION
II |
SOCIAL
APPROACHES TO HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE |
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Social And Economic Environments |
82 |
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Health and wealth |
82 |
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The social and economic environment |
93 |
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Sense of place and health |
96 |
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Vulnerability and environmental hazards |
97 |
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Socioeconomic environments and obesity |
99 |
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Conclusion |
103 |
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Culture And Identity |
105 |
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Culture |
105 |
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Identity |
111 |
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Conclusion |
123 |
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Power And Politics Of Health |
125 |
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Structural approaches to power |
125 |
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Politics and health |
127 |
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“New” geographies of power |
129 |
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Fertility policy |
132 |
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Conclusion |
143 |
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Geographies Of Healthcare |
144 |
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Foundations of medical thought and practice |
144 |
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Alternative medical systems |
146 |
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Healthcare provision and access |
148 |
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Geographies of care |
160 |
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Therapeutic landscapes |
161 |
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Conclusion |
162 |
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SECTION
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SPATIAL
APPROACHES TO HUMAN HEALTH |
165 |
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Cartography And Visualization Of
Health Data |
167 |
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Origins of health mapping |
167 |
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170 |
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Cartographic concepts |
171 |
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Maps as a tool for displaying data |
175 |
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Mapping as a tool for exploring spatial patterns in health |
181 |
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Mapping as an analytical tool |
183 |
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Visualizing health patterns: The Atlas of United States Mortality |
184 |
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Sources of data and data quality |
186 |
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Conclusion |
187 |
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Health And GIS |
189 |
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GIS concepts and terminology |
189 |
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GIS applications in health studies |
194 |
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Challenges in GIS and health |
203 |
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Conclusion |
206 |
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Integrating Approaches To The Study
Of The Geography Of Health |
208 |
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Global infectious disease campaigns |
209 |
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Conclusion |
222 |
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Glossary |
225 |
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Bibliography |
235 |
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Index |
265 |
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