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.