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001482807 24500 $$aHealth and medical geography in Africa :$$bmethods, applications and development /$$cYemi Adewoyin, editor.
001482807 260__ $$aCham :$$bSpringer,$$c2023.
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001482807 4901_ $$aGlobal Perspectives on Health Geography
001482807 500__ $$aIncludes index.
001482807 5050_ $$aIntro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Health, Diseases and Development: An Introduction to Health and Medical Geography in Africa -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Rationale for the Book -- 1.3 Structure of the Book -- 1.3.1 Nature, Perspectives and Methods -- 1.3.2 Environment, Health and Disease -- 1.3.3 Health and Well-Being -- 1.3.4 Location and Health Behaviour -- 1.3.5 Health Inequalities and Healthcare Planning -- References -- Part I: Nature, Perspectives and Methods -- Chapter 2: Philosophy, Questions and Methods in Health and Medical Geography in Africa
001482807 5058_ $$a2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Philosophical Approaches -- 2.2.1 Empiricism -- 2.2.2 Positivism -- 2.2.3 Structuralism -- 2.2.4 Humanism -- 2.3 Themes in African Health and Medical Geography -- 2.3.1 Disease Mapping and Disease Ecology -- 2.3.2 Healthcare Planning -- 2.3.3 Social Determinants of Health -- 2.4 Methods of Investigation -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Medical Geography in Nigeria: History, Debates and State of the Discipline -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Debates on the Definition of Medical and Health Geography -- 3.3 Growth of Medical Geography Scholarship in Nigeria
001482807 5058_ $$a3.3.1 Pre-1970: The Phase of Pace Setting -- 3.3.2 1970s-1980s: Pioneering Nigerian Medical Geography -- 3.3.3 The 1990s: The Latency Phase -- 3.3.4 2000-Date: The Expansion and Popularization Phase -- 3.4 Training of Medical Geographers -- 3.4.1 Undergraduate Training -- 3.4.2 Postgraduate Training -- 3.5 Research Interests and Contributions of Nigerian Medical Geographers to Health Research in Nigeria -- 3.5.1 Research Interests and Contribution to the Field -- 3.6 Technological Advancements in Medical Geography Studies in Nigeria -- 3.7 Challenges and Prospects -- 3.8 Conclusion
001482807 5058_ $$aAppendix 3.1: Select Bibliography of Works on Medical Geography by Nigerian Geographers (1975-2021) -- 1970-1979 -- 1980-1989 -- 1990-1999 -- 2000-2009 -- 2010-2020 -- 2020-2022 -- References -- Chapter 4: Traditional and Non-traditional Data Sources Useful in Research in African Health and Medical Geography -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Traditional Data Sources -- 4.2.1 Institution-Based Data Sources -- 4.2.2 Population-Based Data Sources -- 4.3 Non-traditional Data Sources -- 4.3.1 Citizen Science -- 4.3.1.1 Crowdsourcing Innovations in Healthcare -- 4.3.1.2 Reporta Health
001482807 5058_ $$a4.3.2 Search Engine Queries -- 4.3.2.1 Google Search in Africa -- 4.3.2.2 Bing Search in Africa -- 4.3.3 Using Social Media Data -- 4.3.3.1 Twitter -- 4.3.3.2 Facebook -- 4.3.3.3 YouTube -- 4.3.4 Mobile Phone Records -- 4.3.5 Data from Sensors -- 4.4 Potential Benefits of Using Non-traditional Data Sources -- 4.4.1 Speed of Detection of Diseases -- 4.4.2 Cost of Data Collection -- 4.4.3 Geographic Spread -- 4.5 Challenges to Using Non-traditional Data Sources for Health Research -- 4.5.1 Access -- 4.5.2 Privacy Concerns -- 4.5.3 Quality of Data -- References
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001482807 520__ $$aThis contributed volume focuses on the evolution and current state of the sub-discipline of health and medical geography in Africa. It encompasses theoretical and methodological issues as well as the current teaching and research capacities of institutions offering programs in health and medical geography in Africa. Further, the book will review the level of adoption of the sub-discipline in State policies and practice and also provide practical illustrations, with case studies, of how studies in the sub-discipline are central to the actualization of Africa's development agenda. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between health and development. Through its direct and indirect impacts on labor productivity, population health and wellbeing matter for the social and economic development of households and national economies. Yet, health is not uniform in space. And so is development. Comparatively on many health and development indicators, Africa fairs poorly. The variation in health may present as differences in the occurrence and spread of diseases, the distribution of and access to healthcare facilities, and/or in health outcomes among the population. Reasons for these variations range from biology to the populations levels of exposure and susceptibility to elements in their environment, including the social interactions taking place within the environment. The field of health and medical geography focuses on the spatial patterns and processes underlying these variations and provides pathways for understanding and addressing them. More specifically, the sub-discipline of health and medical geography focuses on, among others, how places (their characteristics and processes that go on in them) and environmental factors underlie and/or influence disease patterns, exposure and susceptibility to diseases, health variations, health behavior, health outcomes, and the provision of and access to healthcare services. This volume documents perspectives and applications in health and medical geography in Africa for academics, students, health practitioners, and development policymakers.
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