File HAV prevalence 2005.png thumb 300px Hepatitis A prevalence worldwide, 2005. Healthgeography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health , disease , and health care . Overview Adopting a socio ecological rather than the bio medical model, healthgeography adopts a more holistic approach, emphasizing treatment of the whole person and not just components of the system. Under this model, new illnesses e.g., mental ill health are recognised, and other ... , feminism , et cetera. Thus the field of healthgeography was born. History of healthgeography A classic piece of research in healthgeography was done in 1854 as Broad Street cholera outbreak a cholera ... it unusable. After that the number of new cholera cases decreased. Areas of study Healthgeography can provide a spatial understanding of a population s health, the distribution of disease in an area, and the environment s effect on health and disease. It deals also with accessibility to health care and spatial distribution of health care providers. The field is considered a subdiscipline of human geography , however, it requires an understanding of other fields such as epidemiology , climatology . Geography of Health Care Provision Although health care is a public good, it is not pure . In other words, it is not equally available to all individuals . The geography of health care provision ... of American Geographers, Health & Medical Geography Specialty Group web site http userpages.umbc.edu ... Health Category Healthcare Category Global health Category Branches of geography ar ... medicine . This alternative methodological approach means that medical geography is broadened to incorporate ... e.g. physical proximity, travel time are not the only aspects which influence access to health care. Other types or dimensions of accessibility to health care except for geographical or spatial are social, financial and functional. Social accessibility to health care depends on race like separate ... more details
2011 File Star of life2.svg thumb upright The Star of Life . Health is the level of functional or metabolic ... and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness , injury or pain as in good health or healthy . ref Merriam Webster. http www.merriam webster.com dictionary health Dictionary Health , accessed 21 April 2011. ref The World Health Organization WHO defined health in its broader sense in 1946 as a state .... ref name WHO definition World Health Organization. 1946. www.who.int bulletin archives 80 12 981.pdf WHO definition of Health , Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19 22 June 1946 signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100 and entered into force on 7 April 1948. ref ref name WHO constitution World Health Organization. 2006. http www.who.int governance eb who constitution en.pdf Constitution of the World Health Organization ... of health . The Hastings Center Studies , 1 3 , 1973 http www.jstor.org pss 3527467 ref ref Jadad AR, O Grady L. How should health be defined? BMJ 2008 337 a2900 http www.bmj.com cgi content full ... , including the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ICF and the International Classification of Diseases ICD , are commonly used to define and measure the components of health. The maintenance and promotion of health is achieved through different combination of physical, mental health mental , and social well being, together sometimes referred to as the health triangle . ref Georgia State University. 1998. http www2.gsu.edu wwwche Health Triangle Slides . ref ref Nutter S. 2003. The Health Triangle . Anchor Points, Inc. ref The WHO s 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion furthered that health is not just a state, but also a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well ... more details
by flows of finished goods and raw materials. Healthgeography &ndash application of geographical ... distribution of health care providers. Time geography &ndash study of the temporal factor on spatial ... geography Development geography History History of development geographyHealthgeography History of healthgeography History of healthgeography Military geography History History of military geography ...See also Index of geography articles The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geographyGeography &ndash science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. ref Cite web title Geography work The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition publisher Houghton Mifflin Company url http dictionary.reference.com browse geography .... File Political world2.jpg thumb 300px right The human world. TOC limit limit 3 Nature of geographyGeography is an academic discipline &ndash a body of knowledge given to or received by a disciple student ... in. Modern geography is an all encompassing discipline that seeks to understand the Earth and all ... to be. Geography has been called the world discipline . ref Bonnett, Alastair What is Geography? London ... is published. There are many geography related scientific journals. a natural science &ndash field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of natural environment physical geography . a social science &ndash field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society human geography ... geography are also branches of Earth science. Etymology of geography Etymology of geography ... http www.etymonline.com index.php?term geography title Online Etymology Dictionary publisher Etymonline.com ... usually are about a work, an art, or a field of study. Branches of geography As the bridge between the human and physical sciences, geography is divided into two main branches human geography physical geography ref http web.clas.ufl.edu users morgans lecture 2.prn.pdf ref ref Cite web url http www.physicalgeography.net ... more details
, the map is probably one of the earliest examples of Healthgeography . The now fairly distinct differences between the subfields of physical and human geography developed at a later date. This connection between both physical and human properties of geography is most apparent in the theory of Environmental ... geographyHealthHealthgeography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health , disease , and health care . Historical Historical geography Historical ... geography Development and Economic geography Economic Geography right thumb 350px Human geography is one of the two major sub fields of the discipline of geography . Human geography is a branch ... Michael title Human Geography encyclopedia The Dictionary of Human Geography pages 353 360 publisher .... Human geography differs from physical geography mainly in that it has a greater focus on studying ... . As a discipline, Human geography is particularly diverse with respect to its methods and theoretical approaches to study see Human geography Philosophical & theoretical approaches below . History Main History of geography Geographical knowledge, both physical and social, has a long history. In the History of geography, geographers have often recorded and described features of the Earth that might ... as physical features. It was not until the 18th and 19th Centuries, however, that geography was recognised ... accessdate 9 March 2011 ref although the United Kingdom did not get its first full Chair of geography until 1917. The first real geographical intellect to emerge in United Kingdom geography ... concern with both human and physical aspects is apparent in the later Regional geography , during the later 19th and first half of the 20th Centuries. The goal of regional geography, through ... of each region, in both human and physical aspects. With links to possibilism geography ... revolution lead to strong criticism of regional geography. Due to a perceived lack of scientific ... more details
Retail Geography is the study of where to place retail stores based on where their customers are. The use of retail geography has grown significantly in the past decade due to the use of geographic information systems GIS . See also Marketing geography Geo marketing Economic geography Business geography Human geography Category Economic geography Geo term stub ... more details
Geography of Georgia can refer to Geography of Georgia country Geography of Georgia U.S. state geodis Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages ... more details
wiktionary geographyGeography is the study of the earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena. Geography may also refer to Geography album Geography album by Front 242 Geographia , Ptolemy s main work besides the Almagest Geographica , Strabo s 17 volume geographic encyclopedia disambig hr Geografija razdvojba ... more details
History of geography sidebar Critical geography takes a critical theory Frankfurt School approach to the study and analysis of geography. The development of critical geography can be seen as one of the four major turning points in the history of geography the other three being environmental determinism , regional geography and quantitative revolution . Though post positivist approaches remain important in geography the critical geography arose as a critique of positivism introduced by quantitative revolution. Two main schools of thought emerged from human geography and one existing school Behavioral geography behavioural geography which made a brief comeback. Behavioural geography sought to counter the perceived tendency of quantitative geography to deal with humanity as a statistical phenomenon ... base left behavioural geography open to critique as merely descriptive and amounting to little more than a listing of spatial preferences. Radical geography emerged during the 1970s and 1980s as the inadequacies ... to problems. The final and, arguably, most successful of the three schools was humanistic geography , initially formed part of behavioural geography but fundamentally disagreed with the use of quantitative ... analysis. Humanistic geography used many of the techniques that the humanities use such as source ..., Cultural geography revived due to humanistic geography new areas of study such as Feminist geography , postmodernist and poststructuralist geography began to emerge. Additional reading Critical Geographies ... , A Radical Journal of Geography, Blackwell Publishing http www.blackwellpublishing.com journal.asp ... in 2009 http jssj.org See also Geography History of geography Quantitative revolution Quantitative Revolution environmental determinism Environmental Determinism Regional geography Regional Geography feminist geography Feminist Geography behavioral geography Behavioral Geography Critical geopolitics Critical theory Human geography DEFAULTSORT Critical Geography Category Human geography Category ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Integrated geography is the branch of geography that describes the spatial aspects of interactions between humans and the natural world. It requires an understanding of the dynamics of geology , meteorology , hydrology , biogeography , ecology , and geomorphology , as well as the ways in which human societies conceptualize the environment. The links between cultural and physical geography were once more readily apparent than they are today. As human experience of the world is increasingly mediated by technology, the relationships have often become obscured. Integrated geography represents a critically important set of analytical tools for assessing the impact of human presence on the environment biophysical environment by measuring the result of human activity on natural landforms and cycles. Integrated geography is the third branch of geography, as compared to physical and human geography. Integrated geography concentrates on the relationship between human and the surrounding world. See also Wikipedia Books Geography Physical geography Meteorology Climate Human geography Environmental social science DEFAULTSORT Integrated Geography Category Human geography Category Physical geography Category Environmental social science Geo term stub gl Xeograf a ambiental hi hr Ekolo ka geografija ka zh ... more details
Unreferenced auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date February 2009 Visual geography is the study of geography as represented in paintings, photos and other forms of the visual arts . Both human geography and physical geography in the visual arts are studied. Typical studies in Visual Geography include the geographical symbols within visual arts. Another is cross referencing the date a piece of visual art was produced with known weather records to see if the art was drawn accurately in the field or from memory in a studio. Category Branches of geography DEFAULTSORT Visual Geography Geo term stub ... more details
Multiple issues wikify March 2012 orphan March 2012 notability February 2012 Emotional geography is a subtopic within human geography , dealing with the relationships between emotions and place specifically how human emotions relate to, or affect the environment around them. ref name HumGeo cite book last Gregory first Derek title The Dictionary of Human Geography year 2011 publisher John Wiley & Sons isbn 1 4443 5995 9 ref References reflist 1 Human geography Category Geography Category Cultural geography psych stub geography stub ... more details
Orphan date October 2008 A geography fair is a creative approach to learning geography . Each student researches a geographic region, usually a country, and reports to the class using displays, written and oral reports, and other means. Geography fairs are similar to science fair s, except the topic is geographic instead of scientific. External links http www.geographyfair.com Geography Fair site http www.macalester.edu geography mage enrichment fair school fair.htm Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education http www.massgeo.org Fair1.htm Southeast Massachusetts Geography Network Category Educational programs ... more details
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Geography of Glasgow , relates to the geography, climate and demographics of Glasgow , Scotland Glasgow is located on the banks of the River Clyde , in West Central Scotland . Climate climate chart Glasgow 1.6 6.4 142 1.7 7.0 99 2.9 9.1 110 4.4 12.1 60 7.0 15.6 63 9.7 17.8 63 11.8 19.6 68 11.5 19.1 84 9.4 16.1 116 6.7 12.6 132 3.6 9.0 131 2.2 7.0 138 float right clear none source MetOffice ref name PaisleyStats Glasgow weather is typical of Scotland Scottish weather and often unpredictable. The summer months May to September can be fine and sunny and quite mild. The winds are generally westerly, due to warm Gulf Stream . The warmest month, on average is July, averaging over 20 C. However it can be very changeable, and normally a few degrees colder than southern England . Mornings can be damp and misty, or dreich a Scottish word for damp and drizzly and by afternoon sunny and warm. Spring March to May is fairly mild and is a wonderful and popular time to visit Glasgow. Though some days are rainy and windy, Many of Glasgow s trees begin to flower at this time of the year and Glasgow s parks and gardens are filled with spring colour. Winters in Glasgow can be long and damp with fewer sunny days though surprisingly warmer than other countries on the same latitude as Glasgow due to the effects of the Gulf Stream . The winds can be chilling and cold, though severe snow is infrequent and doesn t last too long. December, January and February are the wettest months of the year, though can be sunny if not warm. Statistics Glasgow weatherbox Demographics Population density Glasgow s population peaked in 1931 at 1,088,000, and for over 40 years remained over 1 million. However, in the 1960s ... of Rutherglen to South Lanarkshire in 1996 , the Greater Glasgow Health Board area covered by the local ... Health Board 867,150 555.27 1562 214.38 4,044 Greater Glasgow Settlement Area 1,168,270 368.46 ... Viewpark and Wishaw. reflist Glasgow Category Glasgow Category Geography of Glasgow ... more details
History of geography sidebar notability date January 2011 incomplete date January 2011 Regional geography is the study of world regions. Attention is paid to unique characteristics of a particular region such as natural elements, human elements, and Regionalism politics regionalization which covers the techniques of delineating space into region s. Regional geography is also a certain approach to geographical study, comparable to quantitative revolution quantitative geography or critical geography . This approach prevailed during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, a period when then regional geography paradigm was central within the geographical sciences. It was later criticised for its descriptiveness and the lack of theory. Strong criticism was leveled .... H. T. Kimble ref Kimble, G.H.T. 1951 The Inadequacy of the Regional Concept , London Essays in Geography ... 1953 Exceptionalism in Geography A Methodological Examination , Annals of the Association of American Geographers , vol. 43, pp. 226 245. ref The regional geography paradigm has had an impact on many other geographical sciences, including economic geography and geomorphology . Regional geography ... approach to the study of geography gained some credence in the mid 1990s through the work of geographers ... figures in regional geography were Alfred Hettner in Germany, with his concept of chorology Paul Vidal de la Blache in France, with the Possibilism geography possibilism approach possibilism being a softer ... with other scale spatial scale s. ref MacLeod, G. and Jones, M. 2001 Renewing The Geography of Regions , Environment and Planning D, 16 9 , pp. 669 695. ref See also Wikipedia Books Geography Chorography History of geography References reflist DEFAULTSORT Regional Geography Category Area studies Category History of geography Category Branches of geography Category Geography Category Regional geography ar ca Geografia regional cs Region ln geografie de L nderkunde es Geograf a ... more details
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schools gcsebitesize geography population devindicatorsrev2.shtml BBC bitesize ref Health indicators ... . Within development geography, sustainable development is also studied in an attempt to understand ... rate, the percentage of people without access to safe water, health services and the percentage of children ... http www.planetgeography.com Codrington, Stephen Planet Geography 3rd Edition 2005 Page 97 ref The most ... Social and Spatial Inequalities Human geography Category Development Category Economic geography Category Human geography de Geographische Entwicklungsforschung es Geograf a del desarrollo ... more details
portal box Philosophy Science Geography Atlas Space Time unsourced date September 2011 Philosophy of geography is that subfield of philosophy which deals with epistemology epistemological , metaphysics metaphysical , and axiology axiological issues in geography . The Society for Philosophy and Geography was founded in 1997 by Andrew Light, a philosopher currently at George Mason University, and Jonathan Smith a geographer at Texas A&M University. Three volumes of an annual peer reviewed journal, Philosophy and Geography, were published by Rowman & Littlefield Press which later became a bi annual journal published by Carfax publishers. This journal merged with another journal started by geographers, Ethics, Place, and Environment, in 2005 to become Ethics, Place, and Environment A journal of philosophy and geography published by Routledge. The journal was edited by Light and Smith up to 2009. The journal publishes work by philosophers, geographers, and others in allied fields, on questions of space, place, and the environment broadly construed. The journal has been instrumental in expanding the scope of the field of environmental ethics to include work on urban environments. In 2009 Smith retired from the journal and Benjamin Hale from the University of Colorado came on as the new co editor. Hale and Light will relaunch the journal in January 2011 as Ethics, Policy, and Environment. http www.tandf.co.uk journals carfax 1366879X.html While the journal will now focus more on the relationship between environmental ethics and policy it still welcomes submissions on relevant work ... study of geographical knowledge. See also Philosophy of science Science History of geographyGeography External links http www.cep.unt.edu geosoc.html Society for Philosophy and Geography Philosophy topics Philosophy of science Geography topics Category Philosophy of science Geography Category Branches of geography Category Philosophy by field Category History of geography Philo stub fa ... more details
Cultural geography is a sub field within human geography . Cultural geography is the study of cultural ... The human mosaic a thematic introduction to cultural geography year 1994 publisher HarperCollinsCollegePublishers ... geography are very broad. Among many applicable topics within the field of study are Globalization ... Geography of Modern Western Male Attire journal Journal of Cultural Geography volume 22 ref ... for Britain A Cultural Geography of McDonald s UK journal Journal of Cultural Geography volume 22 ... of Ancestry Groups in San Antonio Journal of Cultural Geography ref Study of cultural landscape s. ref ... Geography ref ref Kuhlken, Robert 2002 Intensive Agricultural Landscapes of Oceania Journal of Cultural Geography ref Other topics include spirit of place , colonialism , postcolonialism post ... , cultural geography as academic study firstly emerged as an alternative to the environmental determinism ... pre determined regions based upon environmental classifications, cultural geography became interested ... geography , at the University of California, Berkeley . As a result, cultural geography was long ... qualitative research qualitative and descriptive and was surpassed in the 1930s by the regional geography of Richard Hartshorne , followed by the quantitative revolution . Cultural geography was generally .... In the 1970s, the critique of positivism in geography caused geographers to look beyond the quantitative geography for its ideas. One of these re assessed areas was also cultural geography. New cultural geography Since the 1980s, a new cultural geography has emerged, drawing on a diverse set of theoretical ... of study include Feminist geography Children s geographies Some parts of Tourism geography Behavioral geography Sexuality and space Some more recent developments in Political geography Some within the new cultural geography have turned their attention to critiquing some of its ideas, seeing its ..., non representational theory non representational geography and population mobility research have ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Image ShuswapArms.png thumb right 350px Shuswap Lake in British Columbia with its three arms In geography , an arm is a narrow extension, inlet , or smaller reach geography reach , of water from a much larger body of water, like an ocean , sea , or lake . Although different geographically, a sound geography sound or bay may be called an arm. By extension, a canal arm is a subsidiary branch of a canal or inland waterway . See also River Channel geography Channel Indian Arm Alice Arm DEFAULTSORT Arm Geography Category Landforms Category Bodies of water Topography stub io Brakio geografio ... more details
italictitle for the study field Urban geography Urban Geography ISSN 0272 3638 is a Peer review peer reviewed academic journal that was first published in 1980. It appears semi quarterly and covers topics concerning urban policy and planning , Race classification of human beings race , poverty , ethnicity in urban areas , House housing , and provision of Public services services and urban economic activity . Urban Geography is published by Bellwether Publishing Ltd. and is available online. External links http www.bellpub.com ug Bellwether Publishing Urban Geography Category Geography journals Category Urban studies and planning magazines socialscience journal stub ... more details
, P. 1989 Counterurbanisation a challenge for socio theoretical geography. In Journal of Rural Studies ... industrialized country newly industrialized countries . Hence, an integrative geography of settlements ... science a research agenda for urban geography. In GeoJournal , Vol. 69, pp. 1 8 http www.springerlink.com ... Geography along the Wadi Hasa, West Central Jordan. In Environmental Archaeology , Vol. 6, pp ... research Definitions Referring to Stone 1965 , settlement geography is Quotation the description ..., that the geography of settling designate the action of erecting buildings in order to occupy .... ref Stone, K.H. 1965 The Development of a Focus for the Geography of Settlement. In Economic Geography ..., that settlement geography not exclusively investigates the distributions, but even more the structure ..., economy or society , which produce them. ref Jordan, T.G. 1966 On the nature of settlement geography ..., B. 2010 Encyclopedia of Geography , 6. Sage Publications http www.sage ereference.com abstract geography n1025.xml ref See also UN HABITAT References reflist Human geography DEFAULTSORT Settlement geography Category Geography Category Branches of geography Category Human geography Category Urban geography ... more details
Crisis in Geography 1950s crisis in geography , which raised serious questions about geography as an academic discipline in the United States. This sub branch of human geography is closely related .... Human geography DEFAULTSORT Historical Geography Category Human geography Category Historical geography ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Strategic geography is concerned with the control of, or access to, spatial areas that have an impact on the national security security and prosperity of nation s. Spatial areas that concern strategic geography change with human needs and development. This field is a subset of human geography , itself a subset of the more general study of geography . It is also related to geostrategy . Strategic geography is that branch of science,which deals with the study of spatial areas that have an impact on the security and prosperity of a nation. Further reading Brzezinski, Zbigniew. The Grand Chessboard American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives. New York Basic Books, 1997. Gray, Colin S. and Geoffrey Sloan. Geopolitics, Geography and Strategy. Portland, OR Frank Cass, 1999. Kemp G., Harkavy R. Strategic Geography and the changing Middle East. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in cooperation with Brookings Institution Press, 1997. Mackinder, Halford J. http www.ndu.edu inss books Books 20 201979 20and 20earlier Democratic 20Ideals 20and 20Reality 20 201942 DIR.pdf Democratic Ideals and Reality. Washington, DC National Defense University Press, 1996. Daclon, Corrado Maria. Geopolitics of Environment, A Wider Approach to the Global Challenges. Italy Comunit Internazionale, SIOI, 2007. Faringdon, Hugh. Strategic Geography NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Superpowers . Routledge 1989 . ISBN 0 415 00980 4. http europeangeostrategy.ideasoneurope.eu European Geostrategy Human geography DEFAULTSORT Strategic Geography Geo term stub Poli stub Category Human geography Category Geopolitics Category International security hr Strate ka geografija ru uk ... more details
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