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  • 1
    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Water. ; Hydrology. ; Public health. ; Social medicine. ; Internal medicine. ; Economic development. ; Integrated Geography. ; Water. ; Public Health. ; Medical Sociology. ; Internal Medicine. ; Development Studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -- Inequities and inequalities in access to care. Chapter 2 -- Gender and health. Chapter 3 -- Disability and health. Chapter 4 -- Food security. Chapter 5 -- Water and sanitation. Chapter 6 -- Mining and health. Chapter 7 -- Climate change and health. Chapter 8 -- Ageing and health. Chapter 9 -- Non-communicable diseases. Chapter 10 -- Infectious diseases. Chapter 11 -- Social interventions and health. Chapter 12 -- Environmental intervention and health. .
    Abstract: This volume creates a platform to showcase health geography research from countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and draws on theoretical and methodological innovations to initiate a discussion on the complexities of the issues impacting health in the region. Through theoretically and empirically grounded contributions from a variety of researchers working across SSA, the book addresses a wide range of topics that are usually treated separately when discussing health geography in the region. By bridging the social science and health disciplines, the book introduces new ways of thinking temporally and spatially about these topics in non-geography contexts as well. In 4 sections, the text will broadly appeal to students, researchers, teachers, policy makers, and global health professionals. Section 1 addresses the social determinants of health, including gender, disability, and other inequities and inequalities associated with healthcare access. Section 2 discusses the environmental determinants of health such as food security, water and sanitation, mining, and climate change. Section 3 focuses on current and emerging challenges to health in SSA, including ageing, non-communicable disease, and infectious diseases. Section 4 concludes the text by discussing the need to develop social and environmental intervention policies and strategies to address health challenges in SSA.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XIII, 204 p. 11 illus., 9 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031375651
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
    DDC: 910
    Language: English
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  • 2
    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Public health. ; Climatology. ; Integrated Geography. ; Public Health. ; Climate Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Climate and weather: impact on the body -- Chapter 3: Climatic norms, definition periods. Methods for determining the areas of biological comfort/discomfort -- Chapter 4: Adaptation to marine climate -- Chapter 5: Influence of weather and climatic conditions on health Adaptation to the marine climate of Russian regions -- Chapter 6: Non-specific prevention of pre-disease states and diseases when adapting to a maritime climate -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: The monograph was written based on the material of the post-doctoral thesis prepared under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Rakhmanov and it has been translated from its original version in Russian. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the process of biological adaptation and adaptation capacity of the population to the marine climate of Russia’s North, the Black and Caspian Sea regions and the Baltic Sea coast. The authors explore different biological reactions to adaptation and offer their classification depending on the type of climate. Special attention is given to the prevention of prenosological conditions and diseases typical of coastal areas. Evidence suggests that the human body has a remarkable capacity to adapt to a range of climatic and weather conditions through a variety of targeted adaptation measures.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: IX, 112 p. 34 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031309519
    DDC: 910
    Language: English
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  • 3
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    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
    Keywords: Geography. ; Public health. ; Medical care. ; Geography. ; Public Health. ; Health Care.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Health, Diseases and Development - An Introduction to Health and Medical Geography in Africa -- Part 1: Nature, Perspectives and Methods -- Chapter 2: Philosophy, Questions and Methods in Health and Medical Geography in Africa -- Chapter 3: Medical Geography in Nigeria – History, Debates and State of the Discipline -- Chapter 4: Traditional and Non-Traditional Data Sources useful in Research in African Health and Medical Geography -- Chapter 5: Mixed Research Methods for Buruli Ulcer Prevention in Southern Benin using Geographic Health Surveys -- Part 2: Environment, Health and Disease -- Chapter 6: Spatial Analysis of Antiretroviral Therapy among Adults in Zimbabwe HIV: Geo-additive Bayesian Survival Models -- Chapter 7: Mobility and Disease Diffusion in East Africa – The Case of HIV/AIDS, Ebola and Covid-19 -- Chapter 8: Management and prevention of HIV infection in migrant miners in Lesotho and South Africa: A capabilities approach -- Chapter 9: Geographical Analysis of Malaria in Nigeria - Spatiotemporal Patterns of National and Subnational Incidence -- Chapter 10: Antimicrobial Resistance in a Changing Climatic Context: An Emerging Public Health Threat in Africa -- Part 3: Health and Wellbeing -- Chapter 11: Climate-Related Diseases and Health Impacts of Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 12: Spatial Distribution and Pattern Analysis of Women Sexual Violence in Tanzania -- Chapter 13: Associating Poverty with Gender-Based Violence (GBV) against Rural and Poor Urban Women (RPUW) in Cameroon -- Chapter 14: Menstrual Hygiene Management in the Context of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Policies – A Case of Schools in Nigeria Health -- Chapter 15: The Nexus between Development and Early Childhood mortality in Nigeria -- Part 4: Location and Health Behaviour -- Chapter 16: Sanitation, Health Seeking Behaviour and Substance Use among Street Children in Ibadan, Nigeria -- Chapter 17: Human Geophagy (Soil Ingestion): Biochemical Functions and Potential Health Implications -- Chapter 18: Spatial Analysis of Breastfeeding Practices and Childhood Morbidity Episodes in Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study of a National Dataset -- Chapter 19: Test-Tube Transnationalism: Fertility Migrants and Reproductive Refugees and the Provision of Care Across Southern Africa -- Part 4: Health Inequalities and Healthcare Planning -- Chapter 20: Location, Accessibility and Socioeconomic Correlates of Child Immunisation Coverage in Nigeria -- Chapter 21: Approaches to Defining Health Facility Catchment Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 22: Access to Health Facility and Frequency of Antenatal Care Visits in Malawi using Bivariate Copula Regression Modelling -- Chapter 23: Territorial Study of the Distribution of Doctors in Gabon.
    Abstract: This contributed volume focuses on the evolution and current state of the sub-discipline of health and medical geography in Africa. It encompasses theoretical and methodological issues as well as the current teaching and research capacities of institutions offering programs in health and medical geography in Africa. Further, the book will review the level of adoption of the sub-discipline in State policies and practice and also provide practical illustrations, with case studies, of how studies in the sub-discipline are central to the actualization of Africa's development agenda. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between health and development. Through its direct and indirect impacts on labor productivity, population health and wellbeing matter for the social and economic development of households and national economies. Yet, health is not uniform in space. And so is development. Comparatively on many health and development indicators, Africa fairs poorly. The variation in health may present as differences in the occurrence and spread of diseases, the distribution of and access to healthcare facilities, and/or in health outcomes among the population. Reasons for these variations range from biology to the population’s levels of exposure and susceptibility to elements in their environment, including the social interactions taking place within the environment. The field of health and medical geography focuses on the spatial patterns and processes underlying these variations and provides pathways for understanding and addressing them. More specifically, the sub-discipline of health and medical geography focuses on, among others, how places (their characteristics and processes that go on in them) and environmental factors underlie and/or influence disease patterns, exposure and susceptibility to diseases, health variations, health behavior, health outcomes, and the provision of and access to healthcare services. This volume documents perspectives and applications in health and medical geography in Africa for academics, students, health practitioners, and development policymakers.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XXIII, 499 p. 105 illus., 94 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031412684
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
    DDC: 910
    Language: English
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  • 4
    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Public health. ; Human geography. ; Epidemiology. ; Social policy. ; Integrated Geography. ; Public Health. ; Human Geography. ; Epidemiology. ; Social Policy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Refining and (Re)Defining “Place” in Health Research: Interrogating Spatial Knowledges + (Mis)Representations -- Chapter 2. Spatial Knowledge, Representation, + Place-Health Narratives: Youth Photovoice Perspectives on a “Food Desert” -- Chapter 3. Placescapes + Public Housing: Towards a Critical Understanding of ‘Place’ + ‘Placemaking’ in Place-Based Health & Housing Strategies -- Chapter 4. The Real Limits of Imaginary Lines: A Participatory Activity Space Method for Exploring Intergenerational (Dis)Connections Between ‘Place’ and Health -- Chapter 5. Place, Health, and the Geography of Embodiment: Intergenerational Participatory Research for Representation/as Resistance in The Ville -- Chapter 6. Towards Decolonizing Place-Health Research: Placemaking, Power, and the Production of “Place”-Health Knowledge.
    Abstract: This book draws on the author's ten years of participatory work to examine core themes of (mis)representation, re-presentation, and resistance within place-health research and practice. The book includes practice- and research-based projects with implications and applications for practitioners (e.g. local health department epidemiologists) and academics, introducing readers to an array of new and mixed-methods within place-health research. It also introduces new conceptual and analytical place-health frameworks that more explicitly account for power—both within place making, unmaking, and remaking processes, and within the (re)production of place-health knowledges. Across six chapters, the author reports and reflects on a selection of research projects, raising key considerations in regard to place-health (mis)representation, and highlighting the value of participatory methods and processes in re-presenting—and decolonizing—spatial narratives of health. This includes an emphasis on the integration of community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles with the technological and procedural affordances of information and communication technologies (ICTs). With each chapter drawing from CBPR, decolonizing, social epidemiology, health geography, Black feminist, and critical theory orientations, the book offers an integrated call and framing for a critical examination of how geographies of “place” and health—and narratives/stories therein—are constructed, and perhaps might be de/re-constructed through inclusive and equitable research practices that center community and offer a mode of resistance for the production of place-health counternarratives. The book is intended for academic researchers and practitioners in public health and health geography fields, particularly those whose work engages social epidemiology, urban planning, and aspects of community development, and will also appeal to researchers and practitioners who use participatory, community-inclusive methods and processes in their work, especially as related to community mapping.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XXII, 140 p. 41 illus., 34 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031061417
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
    DDC: 910
    Language: English
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  • 5
    Online Resource
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    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Public health. ; Economic development. ; Human geography. ; Regional economics. ; Spatial economics. ; Biometry. ; Integrated Geography. ; Public Health. ; Development Studies. ; Human Geography. ; Regional and Spatial Economics. ; Biostatistics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: History and Context -- Chapter 2: China's population aging and regional variation -- Chapter 3: Government policies and programs for elderly services: a historical review -- Part 2: Spatial analysis of supply and demand of services for aging persons -- Chapter 4: Living facilities for aging persons -- Chapter 5: Meal services for aging persons -- Chapter 6: Health services -- Part 3: Regional and local case studies -- Chapter 7: Community Services for Aging Person -- Chapter 8: Regional cooperation for nursing home facilities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.
    Abstract: This volume draws upon one of the first comprehensive studies on the regional variations of services for aging persons in China to provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of the impact of China's rapidly growing aging population on the country's socioeconomic, cultural, and political systems. In three parts, the manuscript combines case-oriented comparative methods with variable-oriented statistical and GIS analyses to examine the spatial patterns and relationships between supply and demand of affordable and accessible services for aging persons in China. Part one gives a historical review of population aging in China, including the development of services for aging persons and government policies and programs geared towards elders. Part two provides an analysis of spatial variations of supply and demand for services including food, housing, health, and community services for aging persons. Part three uses case studies to analyse the regional and local dimensions of elderly services. Suggestions are made for future planning, development, and policies. This book will appeal to policy makers, city planners, service providing businesses, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying economic geography, planning, and regional development.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XVIII, 150 p. 38 illus., 37 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030980320
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
    DDC: 910
    Language: English
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  • 6
    Keywords: Geography. ; Environmental geography. ; Epidemiology. ; Public health. ; Immunology. ; Virology. ; Geography. ; Integrated Geography. ; Epidemiology. ; Public Health. ; Immunology. ; Virology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Spatial Epidemiology: Challenges and Methods in COVID-19 Research -- Chapter 3. Disease Ecology -- Chapter 4. COVID-19 and the Political Ecology of Global Food and Health Systems -- Chapter 5. Setting a Death Trap: International Political Economy, COVID-19 Responses, and the Plight of Central American Migrants -- Chapter 6. Emergent Global Pandemic Risks, Complex Systems, and Population Health -- Chapter 7. Eight Centuries of Epidemic and Pandemic Control -- Chapter 8. Humanism and Social Constructionism -- Chapter 9. Mapping the Post-Structural Geographies of COVID-19 -- Chapter 10. Non-Representational Approaches to COVID-19 -- Chapter 11. How to Have Theory in a Pandemic: A Critical Reflection on the Discourses of COVID-19 -- Chapter 12. Health Service Capacities, Responses, and Practice -- Chapter 13. Informal Care: The Forgotten Frontlines of COVID-19 -- Chapter 14. Resilience, Risk, and Policymaking -- Chapter 15. Managing Internationally Mobile Bodies in a World on Hold: Migration, Tourism, and Biological Citizenship in the Context of COVID-19 -- Chapter 16. Mobility is Dead: Post-pandemic Planning as an Opportunity to Prioritize Sustainability and Accessibility -- Chapter 17. Media and Information in Times of Crisis: The Case of the COVID-19 Infodemic -- Chapter 18. The (Social Distanced) Circle of Family, Friends, and Allies: How COVID-19 is Re-shaping Social Capital and New Opportunities for Research -- Chapter 19. The Syndemic Pandemic: COVID-19 and Social Inequality -- Chapter 20. Maintaining Wellbeing During and After COVID-19 -- Chapter 21. Pandemic Geographies of Physical Activity -- Chapter 22. Surveillance, Control, and Containment (Biopolitics) -- Chapter 23. Contradictory and Compounding: The Social Implications of COVID-19 -- Chapter 24. Geographical Metaphors in Everyday Life -- Chapter 25. Vaccine Geopolitics During COVID-19: How Pandemics Thicken Borders, Exacerbate Violence, and Deepen Existing Fault Lines -- Chapter 26. Geographies of Digital Storytelling: Care and Harm in a Pandemic -- Chapter 27. Animal Geographies in a Pandemic -- Chapter 28. Environment and COVID-19: Unpacking the Links -- Chapter 29. Home in the Context of COVID-19 -- Chapter 30. Death, Devastation, and Failure in Long-term care: The Need for a Geographical Re-engagement with the Sector -- Chapter 31. Re-figuring Public Spaces? -- Chapter 32. Consumer Spaces -- Chapter 33. The Place, Labour, and Networks of Transportation during COVID-19 -- Chapter 34. COVID-19: Pandemic on an Urban Planet -- Chapter 35. Geographies of the Rural and the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Chapter 36. Global Spaces: COVID-19 and the Reconfiguring of Global Health -- Chapter 37. Why Green and Blue Spaces Matter More than Ever -- Chapter 38. COVID-19 in the Developing World: Curse or Blessing? -- Chapter 39. Art Spaces -- Chapter 40. Practicing Self-determination to Protect Indigenous Health in COVID-19: Lessons for this Pandemic and Similar Futures -- Chapter 41. #thenewnormal and the Pathological: Rethinking Human-Virus Relations during the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Chapter 42. Older People -- Chapter 43. Children and Families -- Chapter 44. Race, Ethnicity, and COVID-19: The Persistence of Black-White Disparities in the United States -- Chapter 45. Understanding the Importance of Gender for COVID-19 -- Chapter 46. People with Disabilities -- Chapter 47. Participatory Research by/for the Precariously Housed in a time of COVID-19 -- Chapter 48. Mental-ill Health and Anxious Pandemic Geographies -- Chapter 49. COVID-19 and Health Professionals: Recommitting to a Global Health Agenda -- Chapter 50. Labor Geography, Racial Capitalism, and the Pandemic Portal -- Chapter 51. Geographies of (Domestic) Alcohol Consumption -- Chapter 52. Public Geographies in a Post-COVID-19 World -- Chapter 53. Textures of an Epidemic: On the Necessity of Qualitative Methods in Making Better Pandemic Futures -- Chapter 54. Counting COVID: quantitative geographical approaches to COVID-19 -- Chapter 55.GIS and Spatial Representations: Challenges and Missteps -- Chapter 56. New Forms of Data, New Forms of Opportunities to Monitor and Tackle a Pandemic -- Chapter 57. Knowledge Translation and COVID-19 -- Chapter 58. Examining Geographical Visualizations of COVID-19.
    Abstract: This volume provides a critical response to the COVID-19 pandemic showcasing the full range of issues and perspectives that the discipline of geography can expose and bring to the table, not only to this specific event, but to others like it that might occur in future. Comprised of almost 60 short (2500 word) easy to read chapters, the collection provides numerous theoretical, empirical and methodological entry points to understanding the ways in which space, place and other geographical phenomenon are implicated in the crisis. Although falling under a health geography book series, the book explores the centrality and importance of a full range of biological, material, social, cultural, economic, urban, rural and other geographies. Hence the book bridges fields of study and sub-disciplines that are often regarded as separate worlds, demonstrating the potential for future collaboration and cross-disciplinary inquiry. Indeed book articulates a diverse but ultimately fulsome and multiscalar geographical approach to the major health challenge of our time, bringing different types of scholarship together with common purpose. The intended audience ranges from senior undergraduate students and graduate students to professional academics in geography and a host of related disciplines. These scholars might be interested in COVID-19 specifically or in the book’s broad disciplinary approach to infectious disease more generally. The book will also be helpful to policy-makers at various levels in formulating responses, and to general readers interested in learning about the COVID-19 crisis.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XIV, 448 p. 27 illus., 22 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030701796
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
    DDC: 910
    Language: English
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