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.