THE NEW MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND TROPICAL MEDICINE : Case Studies from Brazil

ISBN-13: 9783639107685 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2008 / 184 str.

William Brennan Arden

Opis

Within the last few decades, the multitude of §infrastructural and environmental changes associated §with population growth, human migration, and §economic development have catalyzed the emergence §and re-emergence of many infectious diseases §worldwide. The morbidity and mortality associated §with these diseases have in turn led to an increased §and renewed impetus to gain a better understanding §of the etiology, epidemiology, prevention, and §control of these diseases in order to achieve better §health and well-being, especially for §underprivileged populations. Two traditionally §separate fields, medical geography and tropical §medicine, have recently seen complex and radical §paradigm shifts in response to this global §situation. As a result, concepts of medical §geography are being more readily employed within §tropical disease research, and tropical medicine is §embracing geographic methods as a central mainstay §in the control, management, and prevention of §tropical diseases. This book examines the complex §interplay that has developed between these two §fields in recent years with several case §studies that examine tropical diseases from a §geographic standpoint.

O autorze

William Brennan Arden,PhD, MPH&TM, studied geography at
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and Public Health &
Tropical Medicine at James Cook University, Australia. Michael
Leitner,PhD, studied GI Science at SUNY-Buffalo and at the
University of Vienna, Austria, and is Associate Professor of
Geography at Louisiana State University.