Geographies of Health: An Introduction - Couverture souple

Gatrell, Anthony C.; Elliott, Susan J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405175753 ISBN 13 : 9781405175753

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), 2009

Synopsis

This revised second edition highlights the ways in which health may be studied from geographical perspectives, setting out the debates and reviewing the evidence that links health outcomes with social and physical environments. * Introduces the reader to relevant theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and research * Provides new examples from a range of geographical settings * Provides an extensive revision to the first edition, emphasizing contemporary concerns such as globalization, neighbourhood health, and obesity * Pays greater attention to the US health care system, mental health, health of older adults, disease ecology and re-emerging diseases, health in developing world, and children's and women's health

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anthony C. Gatrell is Dean of the School of Health and Medicine and Professor of the Geography of Health at Lancaster University. His publications include Distance and Space: A Geographical Perspective (1983), Interactive Spatial Data Analysis (with Trevor Bailey) (1995), GIS and Health (edited with Markku Loytonen) (1998), and Geographies of Health (Blackwell, 2001). Susan J. Elliott is Professor of Geography at McMaster University. She has published extensively in the area of effects on individual and community health of environmental exposures and was recently appointed to the United Nations University International Network on Water, Environment and Health.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1405175753
• ISBN 13: 9781405175753
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 302
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible