Practicing health geography : the African context / Prestige Tatenda Makanga, editor.
Makanga, Prestige Tatenda, editor.
2021
RA943
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource
Online Access
Concurrent users
Unlimited
Authorized users
Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied
Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Details

Title
Practicing health geography : the African context / Prestige Tatenda Makanga, editor.
ISBN
9783030634711 (electronic bk.)
303063471X (electronic bk.)
3030634701
9783030634704
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63471-1
Publication Details
Cham : Springer, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-63471-1 doi
Call Number
RA943
Dewey Decimal Classification
614.4/6
Summary
This volume uniquely presents case studies on health geography in Africa, and analyzes health practices in different African regions to illustrate a unified perspective to the geographies of health. The book describes various contemporary and traditional themes that have characterized the discipline of health geography, and uses its 13 case studies across 14 chapters to challenge the perceived dichotomy between health geography and medical geography among health researchers and practitioners. In 3 sections, the book provides readers with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to understanding health geography in Africa. The first chapter introduces the major theories and perspectives in health geography, and how these characteristics apply to health geography practices in Africa. Section 1 discusses the different uses of space-based analyses in health geography, including geo-data infrastructures, geographies of disease burden, spatial epidemiology, spatially precise public health, and spatial access to health. Section 2 discusses the different uses of place-based analyses in health geography, including health representation, healthcare access, food allergies, and health determinants. Section 3 addresses how geography is incorporated into decision processes in Africa, and how policy planning shapes health-related interventions at the population and individual level. The case studies here discuss geo-enabling health records, health policy, public health planning, and mobile health geographies.
Note
Includes index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 13, 2021).
Added Author
Makanga, Prestige Tatenda, editor.
Series
Global perspectives on health geography, 2522-8005
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030634704
Linked Resources
Online Access
Record Appears in
Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
Chapter 1. Introducing Health Geography
SECTION 1: HEALTH AND SPACE
Chapter 2. Generating spatial demographic data for health in Africa
Chapter 3. Geographies of disease burden in Namibia
Chapter 4. Geographically Precise Public Health: Case of Southern Mozambique
Chapter 5. Spatial epidemiology of urban health risks in select West African Cities
Chapter 6. Methods of measuring spatial accessibility to health care in Uganda
SECTION 2: HEALTH AND PLACE
Chapter 7. Representing health: an Afrocentric perspective from Ghana
Chapter 8. Access to maternal health in regions of Rwanda: A qualitative study
Chapter 9. Risk of food allergy in Accra, Ghana: An application of photovoice
Chapter 10. Determinants of maternal health in regions of Southern Mozambique
SECTION 3: GEO-ENABLING HEALTH DECISIONS
Chapter 11 . Geo-enabled trauma registries: The case of Cape Town, South Africa
Chapter 12. Geography of alcohol exposure: Policy and programme implications for Cape Town, South Africa
Chapter 13. Geography, climate change and health adaptation planning in Uganda
Chapter 14. Mobile Health Geographies: A case from Zimbabwe.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export