| Description |
xviii, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Geographic foundations of environmental health hazards: the need for a place-based perspective -- Environmental health and disease indicators: valuation measures, transition frameworks and burden of disease estimates -- Population health disparities and social injustices: indicators and spatial patterns -- Conceptualization and measurement of race, ethnicity and class -- Environmental health data collection, analysis and visualization: an overview of geographic methodologies -- Global climate change and environmental degradation: place vulnerability and public health challenges -- A spatial analysis of emergent and re-emergent public health risks -- Toxic chemicals: disparate patterns of exposure and health outcomes -- Geographic principles of environmental justice and equity -- Global geographies, environmental injustice and health inequities -- Population disparities in water access, sanitation and health implications -- Food justice, nutritional security and paediatric health outcomes -- Poverty, race and place: a triple whammy hypothesis for minority health geographies -- Globalization, population mobility and immigrant health disparities -- Group disparities in access, quality and utilization of health resources -- Exploring pathways to environmental, health and social equity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Environmental health -- Social aspects.
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Medical geography -- Social aspects.
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Health and race -- Environmental aspects.
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Poor -- Health and hygiene -- Environmental aspects.
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Environmental Health.
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Hazardous Substances.
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Health Status Disparities.
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Poverty Areas.
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Residence Characteristics.
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Vulnerable Populations.
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| LC no. |
2010026789 |
| ISBN |
9781844078240 hardback |
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1844078248 hardback |
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9781844078257 paperback |
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1844078256 paperback |
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