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.

15.00
Unit I: 
Introduction
  • Introduction to Medical Geography and epidemiology
  • Scope of medical geography
  • Basics of   epidemiology
 

Disease ecology

15.00
Unit II: 
Infectious and Non infectious diseases
  • 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
  • Demographic and Epidemiological Transitions, Migration, Mobility and Globalization
  • Slum health and its problems
15.00
Unit IV: 
Food, Nutrition and Health



·         Food, Nutrition and Health

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

 

15.00
Unit V: 
Spatial analysis
  • 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
  • Akhtar  Rais, leamonth Amos Thomas Andrew, Geographical Aspects of Health and Disease in India, Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Limited, 2018
Academic Year: 
2019-2020