Studies in medical geography in Africa

GeoJournal ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-304
Author(s):  
R. Mansell Prothero
Keyword(s):  
Medical Geography

Studies in Medical Geography 2006: An introduction

Geography ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-148
Author(s):  
R. Mansell Prothero
Keyword(s):  
Medical Geography

scholarly journals Radio Base Stations and Electromagnetic Fields: GIS Applications and Models for Identifying Possible Risk Factors and Areas Exposed. Some Exemplifications in Rome

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Cristiano Pesaresi ◽  
Davide Pavia
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Electromagnetic Fields ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Health Information System ◽  
Medical Geography ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
North East ◽  
Gis Applications

This paper—which is contextualized in the discussion on the methodological pluralism and the main topics of medical geography, the complexity theory in geographies of health, the remaking of medical geography and ad hoc systems of data elaboration—focuses on radio base stations (RBSs) as sources of electromagnetic fields, to provide GIS applications and simplifying-prudential models that are able to identify areas that could potentially be exposed to hazard. After highlighting some specific aspects regarding RBSs and their characteristics and summarizing the results of a number of studies concerning the possible effects of electromagnetic fields on health, we have taken an area of north-east Rome with a high population and building density as a case study, and we have provided some methodological and applicative exemplifications for different situations and types of antennas. Through specific functionalities and criteria, drawing inspiration from a precautionary principle, these exemplifications show some particular cases in order to support: possible risk factor identification, surveillance and spatial analysis; correlation analysis between potential risk factors and outbreak of diseases and symptoms; measurement campaigns in heavily exposed areas and buildings; education policies and prevention actions. From an operative viewpoint, we have: conducted some field surveys and recorded data and images with specific geotechnological and geomatics instruments; retraced the routes by geobrowsers and basemaps and harmonized and joined up the materials in a GIS environment; used different functions to define, on aero-satellite images, concentric circular buffer zones starting from each RBS, and geographically and geometrically delimited the connected areas subject to high and different exposure levels; produced digital applications and tested prime three-dimensional models, in addition to a video from a bird’s eye view perspective, able to show the buildings in the different buffer zones and which are subject to a hazard hierarchy due to exposure to an RBS. A similar GIS-based model—reproposable with methodological adjustments to other polluting sources—can make it possible to conceive a dynamic and multiscale digital system functional in terms of strategic planning, decision-making and public health promotion in a performant digital health information system.

Man, Environment and Disease in Britain: A Medical Geography of Britain Through the Ages

1973 ◽  
Vol 139 (2) ◽  
pp. 331
Author(s):  
Michael Ward ◽  
G. Melvyn Howe
Keyword(s):  
Medical Geography

Impact of hydrological factors on human health and the spread of disease

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (9) ◽  
pp. 72-76
Author(s):  
Solmaz Isaq Rzayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Medical Geography ◽  
The State ◽  
Chemical Environment ◽  
Geographical Environment ◽  
Geochemical Factors

In the article in addition to the description of the state of hydrological and geochemical factors, related to the ecogeographic environment, the influence of the ecological-chemical environment on the spread of public health was revealed. The analysis of the influence of the medical-geographical environment on the occurrence and spread of diseases was given. Key words: hydrology, non-infection diseases, eco-geographical condition, endemic gaiter, infectious diseases, ecology geochemical, environmental, medical geography condition

Medical Geography

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denese M. Neu
Keyword(s):  
Medical Geography

The Geography of Health Risks

2011 ◽  
pp. 79-145
Author(s):  
Andrew Curtis ◽  
Michael Leitner
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Pregnancy Outcomes ◽  
Medical Geography ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Community Health Program ◽  
Analytical Approaches ◽  
Selection Of

This book has so far provided an introduction to GIS in terms of its use as part of a community health program. Subsequent chapters will describe a selection of more detailed GIS techniques and approaches. This chapter can be considered as an interlude, an attempt to set the scene by painting a backcloth of risks facing many city neighborhoods and the pregnant women living in them. Of course, at the risk of repeating oneself, there have been whole books written about single risk factors, so the task of compressing all risks into a single chapter is extremely difficult. This is made even harder because many of the situations described are not directly related to pregnancy outcomes, but instead are classed as neighborhood risks, contributing to the overall vulnerability of a person living in these environments. Although some may question why not concentrate solely on pregnancy-related risks, a more holistic understanding of the social environment can help place context into data, a movement away from the earlier criticized “structural functionalism” approach (Litva & Eyles, 1995). At this point it might be worth briefly mentioning that debate continues within the field of medical geography as to the degree in which pure analytical approaches ignore the social relevance of actions (a political economy approach), or how an individual’s experience shapes his or her actions (Dorn & Laws, 1994). For a review of these critical literatures in association with infant mortality see Gesler, Bird, and Oljeski, (1997).

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