Melinda S. Meade and Michael Emch

498 Pages Size: 7" x 10"
Hardcover May 2010 ISBN 978-1-60623-016-9 Cat. #3016 Price: $77.00 $65.45 order	E-book March 2011 ISBN 978-1-60623-691-8 PDF format Price: $77.00 $65.45 order

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2. The Human Ecology of Disease and Health

3. Maps and Geographic Information Systems in Medical Geography

4. Landscape Epidemiology

5. Transitions and Development

6. Climate and Weather: Influences on Health

7. The Pollution Syndrome

8. The Political Ecology of Noncommunicable Diseases

9. Neighborhoods and Health

10. Disease Diffusion in Space

11. Health Care and Promotion

12. Scale, Spatial Analysis, and Geographic Visualization

13. Concluding Words