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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Figure Sources | |
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| Preface | |
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| Describing and Explaining Health in Geographical Settings | |
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| Introducing Geographies of Health | |
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| Health and Geography: Some Fundamental Concepts | |
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| Concepts of health | |
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| Geographical concepts | |
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| Geographies of Health: Five Case Studies | |
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| Asthma in New York | |
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| Area effects on smoking in disadvantaged communities in Glasgow | |
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| The changing political economy of sex in South Africa | |
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| The personal significance of home | |
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| Embodied spaces of health and medical information on the Internet | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Explaining Geographies of Health | |
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| Positivist Approaches to the Geography of Health | |
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| Positivist explanation | |
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| Further examples of positivist approaches | |
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| Social Interactionist Approaches to the Geography of Health | |
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| Social interactionist explanation | |
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| Further examples of social interactionist approaches | |
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| Structuralist Approaches to the Geography of Health | |
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| Structuralist explanation | |
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| Further examples of structuralist or conflict-based approaches | |
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| Structurationist Approaches to the Geography of Health | |
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| Structurationist explanation | |
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| Further examples of structurationist approaches | |
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| Post-structuralist Approaches to the Geography of Health | |
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| Post-structuralist explanation | |
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| Further examples of post-structuralist approaches | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Method and Technique in the Geography of Health | |
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| "Mapping" the Geography of Health: Quantitative Approaches | |
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| Visualization | |
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| Exploratory spatial data analysis | |
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| Modeling health data in a spatial setting | |
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| Geographical information systems and health | |
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| Interpreting the Geography of Health: Qualitative Approaches | |
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| Interviews | |
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| Focus groups | |
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| Other qualitative methods | |
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| Qualitative data analysis | |
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| Rigor in qualitative research | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Health and the Social Environment | |
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| Inequalities in Health Outcomes | |
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| Patterns of Inequality | |
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| Health inequalities: international comparisons | |
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| One Europe or many? | |
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| Health inequalities: regional and class divides | |
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| Explaining Inequalities in Health Outcomes | |
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| The programming hypothesis and the lifecourse | |
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| Behavioral (lifestyle) factors | |
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| Social and community influences | |
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| Working conditions and local environments | |
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| Material deprivation and health | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Inequalities in the Provision and Utilization of Health Services | |
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| Principles of Health Service Delivery | |
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| Levels of health care provision | |
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| Geographies of rationing | |
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| Efficiency and equity | |
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| The need for health care | |
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| Inequalities in the Provision of Health Services | |
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| Health care provision in developing countries | |
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| Health care provision in the developed world | |
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| Utilization of Services | |
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| Use of primary health care services | |
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| Use of secondary and tertiary health care services | |
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| Do Provision and Utilization Affect Outcome? | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| People on the Move: Migration and Health | |
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| Impact of Migration on Health | |
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| Migration and stress | |
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| The health of refugees | |
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| The impact of migration on the spread of disease | |
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| Migration and the incidence of disease and ill-health | |
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| Impact of Health Status on Migration | |
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| The selectivity of migration | |
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| Migration for health care and social support | |
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| The Relationship between Migration and the Delivery of Health Services | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Health and Human Modification of the Environment | |
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| Air Quality and Health | |
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| Types of Pollutants | |
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| Area Sources | |
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| Radon | |
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| Ozone | |
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| Linear Sources | |
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| Point Sources | |
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| Point sources in the developing world | |
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| Point sources in the developed world | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Water Quality and Health | |
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| Water-borne Diseases | |
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| Cholera | |
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| Schistosomiasis | |
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| Gastroenteritis | |
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| Water Hardness | |
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| Chemical Contamination of Drinking Water | |
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| Aluminium, fluoride and arsenic | |
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| Other Forms of Contamination | |
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| Hazardous waste sites | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Health Impacts of Global Environmental Change | |
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| Stratospheric Ozone Depletion | |
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| Ozone depletion and skin cancer | |
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| Other health impacts of ozone depletion | |
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| Global Climate Change | |
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| Direct effects: thermal stress | |
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| Indirect effects | |
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| Impacts on infectious (especially insect-borne) disease | |
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| Other health effects of climate change | |
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| Health Effects of Other Global Environmental Change | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Conclusions: Emerging Themes in Geographies of Health | |
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| The Macro-scale: Health and the "Global" | |
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| The Meso-scale | |
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| The Micro-scale | |
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| References | |
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| Web-based Resources for the Geographies of Health | |
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| Index | |