File HAV prevalence 2005.png thumb 300px Hepatitis A prevalence worldwide, 2005. Healthgeography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health , disease , and health care . Overview Adopting a socio ecological rather than the bio medical model, healthgeography adopts a more holistic approach, emphasizing treatment of the whole person and not just components of the system. Under this model, new illnesses e.g., mental ill health are recognised, and other ... , feminism , et cetera. Thus the field of healthgeography was born. History of healthgeography A classic piece of research in healthgeography was done in 1854 as Broad Street cholera outbreak a cholera ... it unusable. After that the number of new cholera cases decreased. Areas of study Healthgeography can provide a spatial understanding of a population s health, the distribution of disease in an area, and the environment s effect on health and disease. It deals also with accessibility to health care and spatial distribution of health care providers. The field is considered a subdiscipline of human geography , however, it requires an understanding of other fields such as epidemiology , climatology . Geography of Health Care Provision Although health care is a public good, it is not pure . In other words, it is not equally available to all individuals . The geography of health care provision ... of American Geographers, Health & Medical Geography Specialty Group web site http userpages.umbc.edu ... Category Health Category Healthcare Category Global health Category Branches of geography ar ... medicine . This alternative methodological approach means that medical geography is broadened to incorporate ... e.g. physical proximity, travel time are not the only aspects which influence access to health care. Other types or dimensions of accessibility to health care except for geographical or spatial are social, financial and functional. Social accessibility to health care depends on race like separate ... more details
About the human condition Multiple issues lead too short September 2008 organize July 2010 Health is the general ... illness or injury . ref cite web last Anderson first James title What is Health url http fructose.biz ... of the creation of the World Health Organization WHO , in 1948, health was defined as a state of complete ... of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New ... Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100 and entered into force on 7 April 1948. ref ref name WHO ... Health Organization Basic Documents , Forty fifth edition, Supplement, October 2006. ref Only a handful of publications have focused specifically on the definition of health and its evolution in the first ... for Health Promotion , said that health is a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities ... is composed of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health ICF and the International Classification of Diseases ICD also define health. Overall health is achieved through ... to as the Health Triangle. Determinants of health See also Social determinants of health The LaLonde report suggests that there are four general determinants of health including human biology , environment ... lalonde e.pdf A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians. Ottawa Minister of Supply and Services 1974. ref Thus, health is maintained and improved not only through the advancement and application of health science , but also through the efforts and intelligent lifestyle choices of the individual and society. The Alameda County Study examines the relationship between lifestyle and health. It has found that people can improve their health via exercise , enough sleep , maintaining a healthy ... The Alameda County Study A Systematic, Chronological Review journal American Journal of Health Education ... Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance location Reston, VA format PDF issn ... more details
and raw materials. Healthgeography &ndash application of geographical information, perspectives ... Contents Outlines . Further improvements to this outline are on the way. See also Index of geography articles Geography &ndash the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena, ref Cite web title Geography work The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition publisher Houghton Mifflin Company url http dictionary.reference.com browse geography ... Cite web last Hayes Bohanan first James title What is Environmental Geography, Anyway? url http ... outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geography Image Physical world.jpg thumb 300px right Map of the Earth TOC limit limit 2 Nature of geographyGeography is an academic discipline ..., or field of study, that an individual has chosen to specialise in. Modern geography is an all ... not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be. Geography has been called the world discipline . ref Bonnett, Alastair What is Geography? London, Sage, 2008 ref a fields ... geography related scientific journals. a social science &ndash field of academic scholarship that explores ..., geography, history, law, linguistics, political science, international studies, communication, and aspects ... of the branches of physical geography are also branches of Earth science. Etymology of geography Etymology of geography from Greek language Greek lang el geographia , lit. earth describe write ref Cite web url http www.etymonline.com index.php?term geography title Online Etymology Dictionary ... that include this suffix usually are about a work, an art, or a field of study. Geography educational frameworks Five themes of geography ref Guidelines for Geographic Education Elementary and Secondary ... and the Association of American Geographers, 1984. ref &ndash Location geography Location &ndash a position or point that something occupies on the Earth s surface. Place geography Place &ndash Human ... more details
one of the earliest examples of Healthgeography . The now fairly distinct differences between the subfields of physical and human geography developed at a later date. This connection between both physical and human properties of geography is most apparent in the theory of Environmental determinism ... Marketing geographyHealthHealthgeography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health , disease , and health care . Historical Historical geography ... geography Development and Economic geography Economic Geography right thumb 350px Human geography is one of the two major sub fields of the discipline of geography . Human geography is the study ... Geography encyclopedia The Dictionary of Human Geography pages 353 360 publisher Blackwell location Oxford year 2000 ref Human geography differs from physical geography mainly in that it has a greater ... methodologies . Broadly speaking, human geography is a social science discipline, while physical geography is an earth science . Human geography is concerned with the study of spatial patterns of interactions between human beings and their physical environment. History Main History of geography Geographical knowledge, both physical and social, has a long history. In the History of geography .... It was not until the 18th and 19th Centuries, however, that geography was recognised as a formal ... 9 March 2011 ref although the United Kingdom did not get its first full Chair of geography until 1917. The first real geographical intellect to emerge in United Kingdom geography was Halford John Mackinder ... human and physical aspects is apparent in the later Regional geography , during the later 19th and first half of the 20th Centuries. The goal of regional geography, through regionalization , was to delineate ... of regional geography. Due to a perceived lack of scientific rigour in and overly descriptive nature of the discipline, and a continued separation of geography from geology and the two subfields of physical ... more details
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Retail Geography is the study of where to place retail stores based on where their customers are. The use of retail geography has grown significantly in the past decade due to the use of geographic information systems GIS . See also Marketing geography Geo marketing Economic geography Business geography Human geography Category Economic geography Geo term stub ... more details
Unreferenced auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date February 2009 Visual geography is the study of geography in paintings, photos and other forms of the visual arts. Both human geography and physical geography in the visual arts are studied. Typical studies in Visual Geography include the geographical symbols within visual arts. Another is cross referencing the date a piece of visual art was produced with known weather records to see if the art was drawn accurately in the field or from memory in a studio. Category Branches of geography DEFAULTSORT Visual Geography Geo term stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Environmental geography is the branch of geography that describes the spatial aspects of interactions between humans and the natural world. It requires an understanding of the dynamics of geology , meteorology , hydrology , biogeography , ecology , and geomorphology , as well as the ways in which human societies conceptualize the environment. The links between cultural and physical geography were once more readily apparent than they are today. As human experience of the world is increasingly mediated by technology, the relationships have often become obscured. Environmental geography represents a critically important set of analytical tools for assessing the impact of human presence on the environment biophysical environment by measuring the result of human activity on natural landforms and cycles. Environmental geography is one of three branches of geography environmental, physical and human. Environmental geography concentrates on the relationship between human and the surrounding world. See also Wikipedia Books Geography Physical geography Meteorology Climate Human geography Environmental social science DEFAULTSORT Environmental Geography Category Human geography Category Physical geography Category Environment Category Environmental social science Geo term stub gl Xeograf a ambiental hi hr Ekolo ka geografija zh ... more details
History of geography sidebar Critical geography takes a critical theory Frankfurt School approach to the study and analysis of geography. The development of critical geography can be seen as one of the four major turning points in the history of geography the other three being environmental determinism , regional geography and quantitative revolution . Though post positivist approaches remain important in geography the critical geography arose as a critique of positivism introduced by quantitative revolution. Two main schools of thought emerged from human geography and one existing school Behavioral geography behavioural geography which made a brief comeback. Behavioural geography sought to counter the perceived tendency of quantitative geography to deal with humanity as a statistical phenomenon ... base left behavioural geography open to critique as merely descriptive and amounting to little more than a listing of spatial preferences. Radical geography emerged during the 1970s and 1980s as the inadequacies ... to problems. The final and, arguably, most successful of the three schools was humanistic geography , initially formed part of behavioural geography but fundamentally disagreed with the use of quantitative ... analysis. Humanistic geography used many of the techniques that the humanities use such as source ..., Cultural geography revived due to humanistic geography new areas of study such as Feminist geography , postmodernist and poststructuralist geography began to emerge. Additional reading Critical Geographies ... , A Radical Journal of Geography, Blackwell Publishing http www.blackwellpublishing.com journal.asp ... in 2009 http jssj.org See also Geography History of geography Quantitative revolution Quantitative Revolution environmental determinism Environmental Determinism Regional geography Regional Geography feminist geography Feminist Geography behavioral geography Behavioral Geography Critical geopolitics Critical theory Human geography DEFAULTSORT Critical Geography Category Human geography Category History ... more details
Orphan date October 2008 A geography fair is creative approach to learning geography . Each student researches a geographic region, usually a country, and reports to the class using displays, written and oral reports, and other means. Geography fairs are similar to science fair s, except the topic is geographic instead of scientific. External links http www.geographyfair.com Geography Fair site http www.macalester.edu geography mage enrichment fair school fair.htm Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education http www.massgeo.org Fair1.htm Southeast Massachusetts Geography Network Category Educational programs ... more details
soil erosion desertification and lack of adequate water treatment, which presents human health risks ... by the 22 of longitude Geography of Africa Africa topic Climate of Category Geography of Zambia ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Image ShuswapArms.png thumb right 350px Shuswap Lake in British Columbia with its three arms In geography , an arm is a narrow extension, inlet , or smaller reach geography reach , of water from a much larger body of water, like an ocean , sea , or lake . Although different geographically, a sound geography sound or bay may be called an arm. By extension, a canal arm is a subsidiary branch of a canal or inland waterway . See also River Channel geography Channel Indian Arm Alice Arm DEFAULTSORT Arm Geography Category Landforms Category Bodies of water Topography stub io Brakio geografio ... more details
portal box Philosophy Science Geography Atlas Space Time Philosophy of Geography is that subfield of philosophy which deals with epistemology epistemological , metaphysics metaphysical , and axiology axiological issues in geography . The Society for Philosophy and Geography was founded in 1997 by Andrew Light, a philosopher currently at George Mason University, and Jonathan Smith a geographer at Texas A&M University. Three volumes of an annual peer reviewed journal, Philosophy and Geography, were published by Rowman & Littlefield Press which later became a bi annual journal published by Carfax publishers. This journal merged with another journal started by geographers, Ethics, Place, and Environment, in 2005 to become Ethics, Place, and Environment A journal of philosophy and geography published by Routledge. The journal was edited by Light and Smith up to 2009. The journal publishers work by philosophers, geographers, and others in allied fields, on questions of space, place, and the environment broadly construed. The journal has been instrumental in expanding the scope of the field of environmental ethics to include work on urban environments. In 2009 Smith retired from the journal and Benjamin Hale from the University of Colorado came on as the new co editor. Hale and Light will relaunch the journal in January 2011 as Ethics, Policy, and Environemnt. http www.tandf.co.uk journals carfax 1366879X.html While the journal will now focus more on the relationship between environmental ethics and policy it still welcomes submissions on relevant work from geographers. John Kirtland .... See also Philosophy of science Science History of geographyGeography Theoretical geography External links http www.cep.unt.edu geosoc.html Society for Philosophy and Geography Philosophy topics Philosophy of science Geography topics Category Philosophy of science Geography Category Branches of geography Category Philosophy by field Category History of geography Philo stub fa hr ... more details
Crisis in Geography 1950s crisis in geography , which raised serious questions about geography as an academic discipline in the United States. This sub branch of human geography is closely related .... Human geography DEFAULTSORT Historical Geography Category Human geography Category Historical geography ... more details
Feminism sidebar expanded Feminist critiques Feminist geography is an approach in human geography which ... and geographical space. ref name rose Rose, Gillian 1993 Feminism and Geography The Limits of Geographical ... of Geography , feminist geography is often considered part of a broader postmodern , critical theory ... 1993 Space, place and gender relations in Progress in Human Geography 17 2 ref This concern has developed ... which stem from this include Geographic differences in gender relations and gender equality The geography of women spatial constraints, welfare geography The construction of gender identity through the use and nature of spaces and Location geography places Geographies of Sexuality and space sexuality . See also Queer theory Children s geographies In addition to societal studies, Feminist Geography also critiques Human Geography and other academic disciplines, arguing that academic structures ... name Moss Moss, Pamela, 2007 Feminisms in Geography Rethinking Space, Place, and Knowledges Rowman & Littlefield ... Rose s Feminism and Geography ref name rose is one such sustained criticism, focused on Human Geography ... and its influence on geography Cartesian dualism underlines our thinking in a myriad of ways, not least in the divergence of the social sciences from the natural sciences, and in a geography which is based on the separation of people from their environments. Thus while geography is unusual .... Geography, like all of the social sciences, has been built upon a particular conception of mind and body ... Johnston, R.J. & J.D. Sidaway. 2004 . Geography and Geographers. London Arnold, p. 312. ref List of related ... Gillian Rose geographer Gillian Rose Evelyn Stokes Gill Valentine See also Geography History of geography Critical geography Cultural geography References references Further reading McDowell, Linda 1992 Doing gender feminisms, feminists and research methods in human geography . Transactions of the Institute ... . A Feminist Glossary of Human Geography. London Arnold. McDowell, Linda. 1999 Gender, Identity and Place ... more details
italictitle Urban Geography ISSN 0272 3638 is a Peer review peer reviewed academic journal that was first published in 1980. It appears semi quarterly and covers topics concerning urban policy and planning , Race classification of human beings race , poverty , ethnicity in urban areas , House housing , and provision of Public services services and urban economic activity . Urban Geography is published by Bellwether Publishing Ltd. and is available online. External links http www.bellpub.com ug Bellwether Publishing Urban Geography Category Geography journals Category Urban studies and planning magazines socialscience journal stub ... more details
Mezzogiorno . Within development geography, sustainable development is also studied in an attempt ... http www.bbc.co.uk schools gcsebitesize geography population devindicatorsrev2.shtml BBC bitesize ref Health indicators a sub factor of demographic indicators include nutrition calories per day, calories ... to 40, the adult illiteracy rate, the percentage of people without access to safe water, health ... Planet Geography 3rd Edition 2005 Page 97 ref The most famous pattern in development is the North ... Human geography Category Development Category Economic geography Category Human geography de Geographische ... more details
History of geography sidebar notability date January 2011 incomplete date January 2011 Regional geography is a study of regions throughout the world in order to understand or define the unique characteristics of a particular region, which consist of natural as well as human elements. Attention is paid also to Regionalism politics regionalization which covers the techniques of delineating space into region s. Regional geography is also a certain approach to geographical study, comparable to quantitative revolution quantitative geography or critical geography . This approach prevailed during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, a period when then regional geography paradigm was central within the geographical sciences. It was later criticised for its descriptiveness and the lack of theory. Strong criticism was leveled against it in particular during the 1950s ... The Inadequacy of the Regional Concept , London Essays in Geography, edd. L.D. Stamp and S.W. Wooldridge, pp. 1951 174. ref and Fred K. Schaefer . ref Schaefer, F.K. 1953 Exceptionalism in Geography A Methodological .... ref The regional geography paradigm has had an impact on many other geographical sciences, including economic geography and geomorphology . Regional geography is still taught in some universities .... In addition, the notion of a city regional approach to the study of geography gained ... it was also criticized, for example by Peter Storper . Notable figures in regional geography were Alfred ... geography possibilism approach possibilism being a softer notion than environmental determinism ... MacLeod, G. and Jones, M. 2001 Renewing The Geography of Regions , Environment and Planning D, 16 9 , pp. 669 695. ref See also Wikipedia Books Geography History of geography References reflist DEFAULTSORT Regional Geography Category Area studies Category History of geography Category Branches of geography Category Geography ar ca Geografia regional cs Region ln geografie de ... more details
NOTOC Geography of Macau Macau is a city on the southern coast of China . It is located at the south of Guangdong Province, on the tip of the peninsula formed by the Pearl River China Zhujiang Pearl River estuary on the east and the Xijiang River Xijiang West River on the west. Macau is situated 60 km west of Hong Kong and 145 km southwest of Guangzhou , the capital of Guangdong Province. It is immediately adjacent to the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone . The region comprises the Macau Peninsula and the islands of Taipa and Coloane . Macau was once an island but gradually a connecting sandbar turned into a narrow isthmus . Land reclamation in the 17th century made Macau into a peninsula, and a barrier gate was built to mark the separation between the peninsula and the mainland. Pre colonial records show that Macau totaled only Convert 2.78 km2 mi2 sigfig 3 abbr on but began to increase as a result of Portuguese settlement. Land growth has accelerated since the last quarter of the 20th century, from Convert 15 km2 mi2 sigfig 2 abbr on in 1972 to Convert 16.1 km2 mi2 sigfig 3 abbr on in 1983 to Convert 21.3 km2 mi2 sigfig 3 abbr on square kilometers in 1994. Macau s size has gradually increased as result of continued land reclamation, especially on Taipa and Coloane. In 2009, the total land area was approximately 29.5 km . There is a Convert 0.34 km mi sigfig 2 abbr on long border between Macau and mainland China and a forty kilometer long coastline. The main border ... the standard set up by the World Health Organization or WHO . By the end of 2007, Macau will be able ... 7.6 4.7 27.5 2005 8.9 28.2 2006 28.6 Environmental factors Dense urban environment. Geography note essentially ... on mainland See also Geography of China Geography of the People s Republic of China Geography of Hong Kong Geography of Asia Asia topic Climate of References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Geography Of Macau Category Geography of Macau es Geograf a de Macao fr G ographie de Macao ms Geografi Macau pl Geografia ... more details
that have caused health and environmental problems on an enormous scale. Environmental devastation ... and ecosystems and on the population s health. Desertification has led to the large scale ... is the cause of many human health disorders increasing soil salination soil contamination from ... above acceptable health standards. In 1989 the minister of health of the Turkmen SSR described the Amu ... have sewers. Communal water systems do not meet health standards much of the population lacks ... will emerges to regard environmental and health problems as a threat not only to the government in power ... Factbook reflist coord 41 00 N 64 00 E type country display title Geography of Asia Asia topic Climate of DEFAULTSORT Geography Of Uzbekistan Category Geography of Uzbekistan bn es ... more details
Possibilism in cultural geography is the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions. In Cultural ecology Marshall Sahlins used this concept in order to develop alternative approaches to the environmental determinism dominant at that time in ecological studies. The controversy between geographical possibilism and determinism might be considered as one of at least three dominant epistemologic controversies of contemporary geography. The other two controversies are 1 the debate between neopositivists and neokantians about the exceptionalism or the specificity of geography as a science and 2 the contention between Halford Mackinder Mackinder and Peter Kropotkin Kropotkin about what is or should be geography. ref Jos William Vesentini , http confins.revues.org document1162.html Controv rsias geogr ficas epistemologia e pol tica , Confins magazine Revue Franco Br silienne de G ographie ref Possibilism in geography is, thus, considered as a distinct approach to geographical knowledge, directly opposed to geographical determinism . External links http courses.washington.edu anth457 hist lec.htm University of Washington lecture http www.valpo.edu geomet histphil test vidal.html Valparaiso University on La Blache Sources references Category Cultural geography Category History of geography pt Possibilismo geografia ... more details
Behavioral geography is an approach to human geography that examines human behavior using a disaggregate approach. Behavioral geographers focus on the cognitive process es underlying spatial reasoning , decision making , and behavior . In addition, behavioral geography is an ideology approach in human geography that makes use of the methods and assumptions of behaviorism to determine the cognitive processes involved in an individual s perception of, and or response and reaction to their environment. Behavioral geography is that branch of human science, which deals with the study of cognitive processes with its response to its environment, through behaviorism. Issues in behavioral geography Because of the name it is often assumed to have its roots in behaviorism . While some behavioral geographers clearly have roots in behaviorism ref name Norton01 Norton, W. 2001 . Initiating an affair human geography and behavior analysis . The Behavior Analyst Today , 2 4 , 283 290 http www.baojournal.com ref ref name Norton02 Norton, W. 2002 Explaining Landscape Change Group Identity and Behavior. The Behavior Analyst Today , 3 2 , 155 160 http www.baojournal.com BAO ref due to the emphasis on cognition, most can be seen as cognitively oriented. Indeed, it seems that behaviorism interest is more recent ref name Glass07 Glass, J.E. 2007 . Behavior analytic grounding of sociological social constructionism .... ref name Norton01 This is particularly true in the area of human landscaping. Behavioral geography is an approach to human geography that examines human behavior using a disaggregate approach. It draws ... name Norton97 Norton, W. 1997 . Human geography and behavior analysis An application of behavior analysis ... geography is closely related to that of psychology , but draws on research findings from ..., and many others. References reflist Human geography DEFAULTSORT Behavioral Geography Category Human geography Category Behaviorism psych stub geo term stub cs Behavior ln geografie hi ... more details
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