Medical Geography

Paper Code: 
GEO 224
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
75.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The study of medical geography or geography of health is essential to portray an understanding and prevailing of the patterns of diseases over locations and time.Analysis of the links between the migration of people and spread of diseases and environment and health is by its very nature a spatial problem.

Course outcomes (COs):

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

GEO 224

 

 

Medical Geography

 (Theory)

 

 

 

The students will be able to –

CO18:  The students will be able to provide a critical understanding of key concepts related to medical and health geography and will be able to examine the role of societal structures and human behaviour in creating and sustaining health inequalities and differences in access to health care. 

CO19:  Along with that they will provide a set of analytical skills to evaluate the demographic, social, economic and political relationships that can explain health inequalities and differences in access to health care.

CO20:  They will understand how spatial analysis using Remote Sensing and GIS can benefit health care systems to enhance health access to health care.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration,

 

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz,

Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

  • Introduction to Medical Geography and epidemiology
  • Scope of medical geography
  • Basics of   epidemiology
 

Disease ecology

  • Infectious and Non infectious diseases: social and ecological origin
  • Social context of health  inequalities
  • Species transfer and health
 

 



·         Demographic and Epidemiological Transitions, Migration, Mobility and Globalization

Slum health and its problems

 



·         Food, Nutrition and Health

·         Environmental Exposure and Health: Climate and Weather,   pollution and hazards

  • Remote Sensing and Health Applications
 

Spatial analysis: Infectious  and chronic diseases of Tropics

Essential Readings: 

 

·         Maantay, J. (2007). "Asthma and air pollution in the Bronx: methodological and data considerations in using GIS for environmental justice and health research." Health Place 13(1): 32-56.

·         Oliver, M. N., K. A. Matthews, et al. (2005). "Geographic bias related to geocoding in epidemiologic studies." Int J Health Geogr 4: 29.

·         Mishra R.P, Medical Geography of India,, Lawrence Verry Incorporated, 1972

·         AkhtarRais, leamonth Amos Thomas Andrew,Geographical Aspects of Health and Disease in India, Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Limited, 2018

Academic Year: 
2020-2021