GEOG101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Health Geography, Chickenpox, Human Ecology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG101
• Professor: Brent Doberstein

Document Summary

Chapter 4 geography of health and disease. The study of both the physical environment and patterns of human activity, have contributed to academic research on health in many ways. Human health is affected by the environment. Wet, swampy areas are traditionally the breeding ground for insects, such as mosquitos, that spread disease, such as malarias or yellow fever. Peoples diets are different in cold areas versus warm areas of the world, and between wet and dry regions. Health and disease are affected by a regions culture, and geographers have long studied cultural patters. Ex. in the us there is a cultural debate about abortion, attitudes toward abortion are not the same in all places of the us, and thus health policies have a geographic pattern. Polygyny: when a man has many wives: has had an effect on hiv/aids rates in some countries. Sars, the global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome.