Medical geography
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Guilford Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | c2010. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Carrier Form: | xii, 498 p., 16 p. of plates: ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
ISBN: |
9781606230169 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1606230166 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | R188 |
CLC: | R188 |
Call Number: | R188/M481/3rd.ed. |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Questions of medical geography -- The human ecology of disease -- Maps and geographic information systems in medical geography -- Landscape epidemiology -- Transitions and development -- Climate and weather: influences on health -- The pollution syndrome -- Political ecology of noncommunicable diseases -- Neighborhoods and health -- Disease diffusion in space --Health care and promotion --Scale, spatial analysis, and geographic visualization. |