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Medical Geography, Second Edition

Medical Geography, Second Edition

by Melinda Meade (Author), Michael Emch (Author)

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    Hardcover 2000

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 487
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 19 Oct 2000
ISBN 10: 1572305584
ISBN 13: 9781572305588

Media Reviews

Instructors will find this book easy to use for developing a new course in medical geography as the topics flow in a logical manner. Researchers without a special perspective will find it a useful first exposure to the spatial analysis of health-related data. - Social Science & Medicine

The reader is shown the interaction between various geographic systems-including physical, cultural, and political surfaces - and different disease surfaces, via a series of case studies....This text serves as an excellent teaching tool for a first class on medical geography and as a general resource for anyone interested in these issues. - Andrew Curtis, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, USA

Meade and Earickson each have been engaged in medical geographic research for more than three decades... Not only do they have a thorough knowledge of the discipline, but they are able to express it in ways that will make the subject interesting for undergraduate students in geography, other social sciences, and such preprofessional fields as urban studies and public health....I expect to refer to this book quite frequently. - Michael Greenberg, Department of Urban Studies and Community Health, Rutgers University, USA

Author Bio
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.