Medical Geography

Paper Code: 
GEO224
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
75.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

 Students will be made 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. Students will get familiarized with the concepts of infectious and non-infectious diseases and social context of health and will get acquainted with the concepts of demographic and Epidemiological transition, migration, mobility, globalization, slum and its problems.  Students will learn about food, nutrition and health, impact of environment, pollution and hazards on health and will learn about the application of remote sensing in health sector.

15.00
Unit I: 

 Introduction to Medical Geography and epidemiology

 Scope of medical geography

 Basics of epidemiology

 Disease ecology

15.00
Unit II: 

 Infectious and Non infectious diseases: social and ecological origin

 Social context of health inequalities

 Species transfer and health

15.00
Unit III: 

Demographic and Epidemiological Transitions, Migration, Mobility and Globalization

 Slum health and its problems

Unit IV: 

 Food, Nutrition and Health

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

15.00
Unit V: 

 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: 
2023-2024