MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY

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

Course Outcomes (COs)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment strategies

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

 

CO1: 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. 

 

CO2: Students will get familiarized with the concepts of infectious and non-infectious diseases and social context of health.  

 

CO3: Students will get acquainted with the concepts of demographic and Epidemiological transition, migration, mobility, globalization, slum and its problems. 

 

CO4: Students will learn about food, nutrition and health, impact of environment, pollution and hazards on health.

 

CO5: Students will learn about the application of remote sensing in health sector.

 

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

 

 

15.00

•      Introduction to Medical Geography and epidemiology

•      Scope of medical geography

•      Basics of   epidemiology

•      Disease ecology

 

15.00

•      Infectious and Non infectious diseases: social and ecological origin

•      Social context of health  inequalities

•      Species transfer and health

 

15.00
  • Demographic and Epidemiological Transitions, Migration, Mobility and Globalization
  •  Slum health and its problems

 

15.00
  • Food, Nutrition and Health
  • Environmental Exposure and Health: Climate and Weather,pollution and hazards  

 

 

 

15.00

•      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, (1972) Medical Geography of India, Lawrence Verry Incorporated.
  • • Akhtar Rais, leamonth Amos Thomas Andrew, (2018) “Geographical Aspects of Health and Disease in India”, Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Limited
  • Disease in India”, Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Limited.

 

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023