GEO305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Environmental Disease, Swine Influenza, Health Promotion
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Learning objectives: to understand key aspects of the disease diffusion concept, to understand the role of geographical knowledge in interpreting disease movement, to apply these ideas to thinking about contemporary disease outbreaks. Disease diffusion and health: concepts, case study 1: measles, case study 2: influenza, case study 3: sars, disease in the landscape: aids, conclusion. Chronic and environmental disease does not diffuse: respiratory conditions can"t catch, applying disease diffusion is contagious. John snow and the broad st pump: spatial clustering of cases leads to questions re characteristics of the environment. In 10 days, september 1854, 500 people died: clustered around a water pump, a correlation involving location and behaviour drinking h20 that had been contaminated with sewerage, removal of pump handle: number of new cases declined. Foundational concepts: only two ways for anything to be found in any location o develop in situ (indigenous phenomena) o moved from another place.
