Medical geography /

Meade, Melinda S.

Medical geography / Melinda S. Meade, Michael Emch. - 3rd ed. - New York : Guilford Press, c2010. - xii, 498 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references 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.

9781606230169 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1606230166 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2009046573

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015500276 Uk 101533424 DNLM


Medical geography.
Geografía médica.

RA 792 / M481m 2010

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