Health and Medical Geography, Fourth Edition 4/e

I. Introduction and Big Ideas 1. What Is Health and Medical Geography? - What's in a Name? - A Brief History of Health and Medical Geography - Definitions and Terminology - The Challenge of Health Geography - References - Review Questions 2. Ecology of Health and Disease - Disease Agents and Transmission Processes - The Triangle of Human Ecology - Landscape Epidemiology and Vectored Diseases - Conclusion - References - Review Questions 3. Expanding Disease Ecology - Political Ecology - The Poverty Syndrome - Race in the Study of Health Risks - Gender and Sex: Women's Health - Causal Reasoning and Epidemiological Design - HIV and AIDS: Gender, Mobility, and Political Ecology - The Precautionary Principle and Some Political Ecology of Research - Conclusion - References - Review Questions 4. Transitions and Development - Ecologies of Population Change: Multiple Transitions - Major Impacts of Population Change - Environmental Exposures, the Mobility Transition, and Time-Space Geography - Disease Ecologies of the Agricultural Frontier - Other Development Impacts on Rural Ecologies - Globalization of Movements - Conclusion: Emerging Diseases in Your Future - References - Review Questions II. Maps and Methods 5. Maps, GIS, and Spatial Analysis - Cartography of Health and Disease - Geographic Information Systems - Spatial Statistics - Conclusion - References - Review Questions 6. Disease Diffusion - Diffusion Background - Epidemiological Background - Types of Diffusion - Networks and Barriers - Modeling Disease Diffusion - Influenzas - Conclusion - References - Review Questions 7. Emerging Infectious Diseases and Landscape Genetics - What's in a Name? Emerging, Reemerging, or Always There - Why Do Diseases Emerge, Reemerge, or Persist? - Where Can We Expect These Diseases to Emerge/Reemerge? - How Will These Diseases Behave? - Landscape Genetics - Conclusion - References - Review Questions III. What We Eat and Where We Live 8. Food, Diet, and the Nutrition Transition - From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers - The Columbian Exchange - Modern Agricultural Systems - The Green Revolution - The Nutritional Transition - Commercial Agriculture and the Nutrition Transition - Direct and Indirect Health Effects of Agricultural and Dietary Changes - Conclusion - References - Review Questions 9. Neighborhoods and Health - The Concept of Neighborhood Health - Social Context and Health - Effects of the Built Environment on Health - Opportunities and Challenges in Neighborhood Effects Studies - Conclusion - References - Review Questions 10. Urban Health - Cities and Urbanization - A Brief History of Cities - Large Cities in the Modern Era - Developing World Cities: Dickens or a Dream? - Traffic - Disappearing Cities? - Conclusion - References - Review Questions IV. Environments and Climates 11. Environment and Health - Toxic Hazards - Outdoor Air Pollution - Indoor Air Pollution - Water Pollution - Sources and Health Effects of Lead - Risk Assessment and Prevention - Globalization and the Perception of Health Hazards - Hazards, Power, Policy, and Environmental Justice - Healthy Environments - Conclusion - References - Review Questions 12. Climate and Health - Direct Biometeorological Influences - The Influences of the Weather - Seasonality of Death and Birth - Physical Zonation of Climates and Biomes - Climate Change and Health - Conclusion - References - Review Questions V. Health Care and Final Thoughts 13. Health Services and Access to Care - What Is Access? - The Provision of Medical Care - Cultural Alternatives and Perceptions - Conclusion: Transforming the Health Service Landscape - References - Review Questions 14. Concluding Words - Review Questions - Glossary