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More people in the West are likely to die of a degenerative disease than of an infectious diseases such as influenza and smallpox which are two the main killer diseases in the Third World. The author examines patterns of disease and their changes over time throughout the world, pointing out that so-called "tropical diseases" include many formerly common in temperate countries, while "western diseases" (strokes, lung cancer) are becoming more important in urban elite groups in the Third World. The book presents a broad picture of the distribution of disease, considering the causes and interrelations between life styles, climate, food, health care and disease. Students of medical geography, epidemiology, public health, development and medical sociology

Table of Contents:
Part I One world or three to a pathogen?. Part II Western Diseases: Health in industrial and post-industrial countries; Mainly cartographic: the cancers; Mainly cartographic - some other atlas-based studies; Beyond cartographic - some geographical models I - the idea of "surfaces"; Geographical Models II - spatial diffusion of disease ; Some further geographical contributions ;Between two worlds - the historical geography of disease. PART III The Third World : Jacques May's classification and some "tropical" diseases ; Malaria and some other mosquito-born diseases Some geographical contributions on the schistosomiases ; Onchocerciasis or river blindness ; Some Third World cancers ; Is there a geography of hunger? ; Approaches to regional synthesis ; Ecological medical geography and other health geography, in retrospect and prospect.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780631157991
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell Publishers
  • Height: 220 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0631157999
  • Publisher Date: 03 Mar 1988
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Weight: 569 gr


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