Rediscovering the Memphis Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 : A Geospatial Analysis of Disease Dissemination

ISBN-13: 9783639146431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 96 str.

William Brennan Arden

Opis

Most investigations that examine diffusion of §disease through urban areas give relatively scant §attention to the 'micro-environment.' Employing the §many methods of macro-environmental analysis, most §studies do not attempt to identify street-level or §even residence-level temporal-spatial patterns of §disease diffusion. As a result, the mechanisms that §lead to diffusion on such small scales are left §relatively undefined. §§This book investigates some of these unexplored §areas by presenting a temporal-spatial analysis of §the Memphis Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. This §analysis constructs a modern GIS database used to re-§create and analyze the Urban Yellow Fever diffusion §patterns seen in Memphis in 1878 by various §statistical means. Hot spots and multi-death §residences in particular were examined for §interrelated patterns. Temporal-spatial cartographic §representations of these areas show that social and §cultural interactions probably play a greater role §in urban yellow fever dissemination than previously §thought.

O autorze

William Brennan Arden, PhD, MPH&TM, completed his doctorate and
master''s degrees in geography at Louisiana State University,
USA, and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Arden also
studied Public Health and Tropical Medicine at James Cook
University, Australia, and Biological Sciences, European
History, and International Studies at LSU.