About medical geography

Many believe that medical geography is intended only to study the features and patterns of development and spread of diseases that are typical only for certain parts of the world.

Urboekological Situation and Regional Analysis of Population Health In Uzbekistan

With the intensification of the urbanization process, the nosogeographic situation in different regions, population morbidity, types of diseases occurring among them, especially the nervous system and mental disorders, malignant tumors, allergic diseases are more characteristic of highly urbanized areas. This article covers issues related to the development of cities and the consequences of population growth, factors affecting the urban environment, problems related to public health. The amount of toxic gases emitted into the atmosphere in Uzbekistan was also analyzed. The health of mothers is extremely important in the health of the next generation, that is why the authors have developed a system of factors that affect maternal and child health. Analysis and study of regional aspects of these problems is one of the main tasks of medical geography. In medical geographical research, the analysis of regions in terms of nosogeographic situation is of great importance. Analyzes show that the deterioration of the environment, man's unlimited domination of nature, the deterioration of the ecological situation, as well as the spread of related diseases on earth pose new challenges to medical geography, which studies the causes and patterns. The rapid development of science and technology, the steady increase in human impact on nature and consequently, a number of negative changes in the natural environment have a significant impact on human health. The acceleration of the process of urbanization which in turn causes problems such: as air, water and soil pollution.

Medico-geographical problems of Bulgaria In the conditions of the coronavirus pandemic

ABSTRACT In 2021, it would be appropriate for the Bulgarian society to outline the first conclusions about the new conditions, due to the pandemic of coronavirus - COVID – 19 is not necessary to prove the need for an analysis to be made by medical geography. In this endeavor, Bulgarian medical geography must take on its responsibility, and this understanding is leading to the writing of this article. RESUMEN En 2021, sería conveniente que la sociedad búlgara esbozara las primeras conclusiones sobre las nuevas condiciones, debido a la pandemia de coronavirus - COVID - 19 no es necesario demostrar la necesidad de un análisis que debe hacer la geografía médica. En este empeño, la geografía médica búlgara debe asumir su responsabilidad, y esta comprensión es la que lleva a la redacción de este artículo.

History of organization of the department of hygiene, medical police, medical geography and statistics at Kyiv university.

The work identifies the main stages of organizing the Department of Hygiene, Medical Police, Medical Geography and Statistics at the University of St. Vladimir in Kiev. In 1863, the issue of creating the Department was discussed at the meetings of the Faculty of Medicine and the University council. In 1865, the permission was given to organize the Department from 1867. In 1869—1871 V.A. Subbotin was trained by foreign specialists. In 1871 he was elected assistant professor at the named Department. This year can be considered the year of creation of the Department. Finally, in 1872 V.A. Subbotin became a professor.

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

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.

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

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