GGRB28H3 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 Explaining geographies of Health by Gatrell

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Chapter 2: explaining geographies of health why there was place-to-place variation in disease incidence in one case. Copenhagen: spread was via hierarchical and contagious process ; spread in urban hierarchy, why influenza appears in iceland as a series of regular epidemics rather than being endemic (occurring continuously). The explanation lies in the sparsity of population. Location allocation method - location-allocation modeling in planning the location of cancer units in a part of central england. minimizing the aggregate distance traveled from place of residence to the health center. Social interactionist (erving goffman) approaches to the geography of health: concern for individual meaning. Private vs. public accounts: the distinction is important and conflicting. Structuralist approaches to the geography of health underlying causes of disease are embedded in political and economic systems. not to be sought at the individual level; social context that matters.

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