GEOG 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Geography, Miasma Theory
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Finish reading: spaceness, spatiality (quantitative): medical geography, placeness (identification, qualitative): health geography. Mortality (rate of which you die per period of time, related to dying) Morbidity (living with diseases, which the disease can or cannot be the direct cause of death) Environment/diet (therefore agricultural development) coming into as an aspect in health and wellness; where you live/environment or agriculture may have high correlation and highly affect your health. Ability to get safer food resources (ex. clean water) also related to environment. How to change the environment to create a safer and healthier place to live, better quality of life. People realized that (cid:373)alaria is (cid:374)ot (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of (cid:862)(cid:271)ad air(cid:863) arou(cid:374)d (cid:449)et areas, s(cid:449)a(cid:373)ps. Dense areas/cities of europe started building sewage systems to solve cholera cases. Plateau and medina: abuse/misinterpretation of science by french colonists; put the colonists in plateau 2km away from africans in medina because they think that only africans can get cholera.
