HEALTH GEOGRAPHY

Catalog description

(Slashed with GEOG 42052 and GEOG 72052 ) This course examines health/medical geography, a subdiscipline of both public health and geography, that focuses on geographic aspects of health and disease. The field deals with human-environment interactions and their influence on human health. This course offers historical context to geography and health and covers three major approaches to health/medical geographic scholarship: ecological approaches, which systematically analyzes relationships between people and their environments; social approaches, including political economy and socio-behavioral approaches; and spatial approaches.