Elements of Health and Medical Geography

Chapter 1. Nature and Scope of Health Geography
1.1 History of Health Geography
1.2 What is Health Geography?
1.3 Importance of Health Geography
1.4 Challenges to Health Geography

Chapter 2. Health: Concepts and Scope
2.1 Health: Definitions
2.2 Determinants of Health and Health Promotion
2.3 Role of Health Geography in Contemporary Health Care Delivery and Health Promotion

Chapter 3. Theories and Models in Health Geography
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Demographic and Ecological Transitions and Development Model
3.3 Causes, Transmission, and Spread of Disease Models
3.4 Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Models
3.5 Geographical Models of Disease Transmission and Spread

Chapter 4. Diseases/Morbidity and Health
4.1 Definition of Disease/Morbidity and Health
4.2 Nature and Patterns of Disease Occurrence
4.3 Types of Diseases
4.4 Spatial Distribution of Diseases: Causes, Control Measures, and Socioeconomic Impact
4.5 Disease Burden

Chapter 5. Environment, Diseases, and Health Interrelationships
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Physical Environment
5.3 Social Environment

Chapter 6. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, DISEASES, AND HEALTH INTERRELATIONSHIPS
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Biodiversity Loss

Chapter 7. Epidemiology
7.1 Definition and Nature of Epidemiology
7.2 History and Epidemiological Paradigms
7.3 Types of Studies in Epidemiology
7.4 Errors, Confounding, and Causation in Epidemiology

Chapter 8. Health care Disparities and Inequalities
8.1 Definitions: Disparity and Inequality
8.2 Concepts: Health Disparity and Health Care Disparity
8.3 Health Care and Health Care Classifications
8.4 Types of Health Care Disparities and Inequalities
8.5 Barriers to Health Care Provision and Accessibility in Developed and Developing Countries

Chapter 9. Health Statistics
9.1 Definitions and Concepts
9.2 Vital Statistics
9.3 Health Statistics as a Statistical Measurement Tool/Technique
9.4 Health Statistics as a Source of Data/Information

Chapter 10. Application of Crowdsourced Data in Health Geography Research
10.1 Definitions and Concepts
10.2 Crowdsourced Geographic Information Sources
10.3 Applications of Crowdsourced Geographic Information
10.4 Limits of Crowdsourced Data

Chapter 11. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS IN HEALTH GEOGRAPHY 11.1 Definitions and Concepts
11.2 Th­e role of GIS in Research in Health Geography
11.3 Types of Geospatial Data Acquisition and Analysis Techniques in GIS
11.4 Application of GIS Techniques in Health Geography Research

Chapter 12. Health and Disease Mapping in GIS with ArcMap: Laboratory Exercises
12.1 Introduction
12.2 GIS Mapping with ArcMap/ArcGIS

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