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| Questions of Medical Geography | |
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| What's in a Name? | |
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| A Brief History of Medical Geography | |
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| Definitions and Terminology | |
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| The Challenge of Medical Geography | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Human Ecology of Disease | |
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| Health | |
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| The Triangle of Human Ecology | |
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| Transmission and Creation of Infectious Disease | |
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| Nutrition and Health | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Biological Classifications of Importance to Health | |
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| Maps and Geographic Information Systems in Medical Geography | |
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| Cartography of Disease | |
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| Types of Maps: Some Issues | |
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| Geographic Information Systems | |
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| Disease Maps on the Web | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Landscape Epidemiology | |
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| Regions | |
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| Transmissible Disease Systems | |
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| The Landscape Epidemiology Approach | |
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| The Cultural Dimension of Water-Based Disease Transmission | |
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| The Cultural Ecology of Tick-Borne and Other Transmissible Diseases | |
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| Regionalization | |
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| Ecological Complications | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Field Mapping for Landscape Epidemiology | |
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| Transitions and Development | |
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| Ecologies of Population Change: Multiple Transitions | |
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| Major Impacts of Population Change | |
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| Nutrition in Transition | |
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| The Mobility Transition and Time-Space Geography | |
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| Disease Ecologies of the Agricultural Frontier | |
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| Other Development Impacts on Rural Ecologies | |
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| World Urbanization and Changing Disease Ecologies | |
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| Globalization of Movements | |
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| Conclusion: Emerging Diseases in Your Future | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Age Standardization | |
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| Microspatial Exposure Analysis | |
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| Climate and Weather: Influences on Health | |
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| Direct Biometeorological Influences | |
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| The Influences of the Weather | |
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| Seasonality of Death and Birth | |
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| How Climate Change Is Likely to Affect Health and Disease | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Monthly Indexes | |
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| Seasonality of Birth | |
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| Physical Zonation of Climates and Biomes | |
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| The Pollution Syndrome | |
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| Toxic Hazards of Natural and Economic Origins | |
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| Outdoor Air Pollution | |
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| Indoor Air Pollution | |
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| Water Pollution | |
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| Radioactive Pollution | |
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| Risk Assessment and Prevention | |
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| Globalization and the Perception of Health Hazards | |
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| The Geometry of Hazards, Power, and Policy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Political Ecology of Noncommunicable Diseases | |
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| The Dimension of Mortality | |
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| The Poverty Syndrome | |
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| Race in the Study of Health Risks | |
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| Gender: Women's Health | |
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| Causal Reasoning and Epidemiological Design | |
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| Disease Ecology: Cancer | |
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| Disease Ecology: Cardiovascular Disease | |
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| Unknown Etiology and Other Questions | |
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| The Precautionary Principle and Some Political Ecology of Research | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Neighborhoods and Health | |
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| The Concept of Neighborhood Health | |
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| Neighborhood Definition and Units | |
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| Analyzing Neighborhood Effects on Health | |
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| Effects of the Built Environment on Health | |
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| The Challenges of Neighborhood Health Studies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Disease Diffusion in Space | |
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| Terminology | |
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| Disease Diffusion | |
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| Modeling Disease Diffusion | |
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| Influenzas | |
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| Geographic Approaches to the Pandemic of AIDS | |
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| Other Epidemics | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Diffusion Waves or Stochastic Simulation of Individual Contact? | |
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| Health Care and Promotion | |
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| Asclepius: Provision of Medical Care | |
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| Asclepius Unrobed: Cultural Alternatives and Perceptions | |
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| Hygeia: Health Promotion | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Application of Spatial Statistics to Health Care Delivery | |
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| Scale, Spatial Analysis, and Geographic Visualization | |
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| Some Issues of Scale | |
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| The Ecological Fallacy | |
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| Scale of Analysis and Units of Observation | |
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| Sources for Spatial Disease Data | |
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| Visualizing and Summarizing Disease Distributions | |
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| Spatial Analysis | |
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| Spatial Statistics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Chi-Square Statistical Test | |
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| Regression Analysis | |
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| Spatial Autocorrelation | |
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| Concluding Words | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |