| 书目名称 | Practicing Health Geography | | 副标题 | The African Context | | 编辑 | Prestige Tatenda Makanga | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Focuses on the practice of health geography in Africa.Presents context specific case studies describing health geography in different parts of Africa.Uses examples from African cases to challenge the | | 丛书名称 | Global Perspectives on Health Geography | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This volume uniquely presents case studies on health geography in Africa, and analyzes health practices in different African regions to illustrate a unified perspective to the geographies of health. The book describes various contemporary and traditional themes that have characterized the discipline of health geography, and uses its 13 case studies across 14 chapters to challenge the perceived dichotomy between health geography and medical geography among health researchers and practitioners. In 3 sections, the book provides readers with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to understanding health geography in Africa..The first chapter introduces the major theories and perspectives in health geography, and how these characteristics apply to health geography practices in Africa. Section 1 discusses the different uses of space-based analyses in health geography, including geo-data infrastructures, geographies of disease burden, spatial epidemiology, spatially precise public health, and spatial access to health. Section 2 discusses the different uses of place-based analyses in health geography, including health representation, healthcare access, food allergies, and health d | | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | | 关键词 | Medical geography; Health geography in Africa; Geo-data infrastructures for health; Spatial epidemiolog | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63471-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-63473-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-63471-1Series ISSN 2522-8005 Series E-ISSN 2522-8013 | | issn_series | 2522-8005 | | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 |
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