TY - BOOK AU - Peter, Anthamatten. AU - Hazen, Helen. TI - An Introduction to the geography of health SN - 9780415498067 U1 - 614.42 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Medical geography N1 - 1. Introduction. What is the geography of health? -- What is health? -- Evolving approaches to health geography -- Structure of this book -- Section I. ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN HEALTH . 2. Ecological Approaches to Human Health and Environmental Change -- Ecology of human health -- Cultural ecology of disease -- Disease cycles -- Landscape epidemiology -- Environmental change -- Conclusion -- 3. Demographic Change and Emerging and Resurgent Infectious Diseases -- The demographic and epidemiologic transitions -- Pathogen and vector populations -- Emerging and resurgent infectious diseases -- Case studies of emerging and resurgent infectious diseases -- Conclusion -- 4. Environmental Exposures -- Non-living agents of disease -- Assessing environmental exposures -- Environmental justice -- Conclusion -- Section II. SOCIAL APPROACHES TO HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE . 5. Social and Economic Environments -- Health and wealth -- The social and economic environment -- Sense of place and health -- Vulnerability and environmental hazards -- Socioeconomic environments and obesity -- Conclusion -- 6. Culture and Identity -- Culture -- Identity -- Conclusion -- 7. Power and Politics of Health -- Structural approaches to power -- Politics and health -- "New" geographies of power -- Fertility policy -- Conclusion -- 8. Geographies of Healthcare -- Foundations of medical thought and practice -- Alternative medical systems -- Healthcare provision and access -- Geographies of care -- Therapeutic landscapes -- Conclusion -- Section III. SPATIAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN HEALTH. 9. Cartography and Visualization of Health Data -- Origins of health mapping -- Reading maps -- Cartographic concepts -- Maps as a tool for displaying data -- Mapping as a tool for exploring spatial patterns in health -- Mapping as an analytical tool -- Visualizing health patterns: The Atlas of United States Mortality -- Sources of data and data quality -- Conclusion -- 10. Health and Gis -- GIS concepts and terminology -- GIS applications in health studies -- Challenges in GIS and health -- Conclusion -- 11. Integrating Approaches to the Study of the Geography of Health -- Global infectious disease campaigns -- Conclusion ER -