HLTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Geography, Asthma, Health Promotion
Document Summary
Health geography is a subdiscipline of human geography which deal with the interaction between people and the environment providing a holistic perspective. Seeks to explore social,cultural and political contexts for health within a framework for spatial organization. Research in health geography spans 2 distinct avenues: the patterns, causes and spread of disease, planning and provision of health services. Understanding geography, including the arrangement of health services and the location and nature of environmental exposures is crucial in assessing the interrelations inherent in many health-related risk exposures. Health inequalities and polarization, scla, globalization and urbanization are directly related to public health. Global issues, such as environmental change, demographic transition and the internationalization of health service organization, all have geographic contexts that directly influence health policy. As well as global patterns in infectious diseases and growth of cities. Worldwide obesity epidemic is connected to factors that influence global warming.
