Meade, Melinda S,

Medical geography / [print] Melinda S. Meade, Michael Emch. - third edition. - New York : Guilford Press, (c)2010. - xii, 498 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographies 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.



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015500276 Uk 101533424 DNLM


Medical geography.

RA792.E53.M435 2010 RA792