Medical Geography, Second Edition

Melinda S. Meade is a professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also an adjunct professor of epidemiology, a member of the ecology curriculum, and a fellow of the Carolina Population Center. Robert J. Earickson, a medical geographer, is an emeritus professor of geography at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Questions of Medical Geography. The Human Ecology of Disease. Landscape Epidemiology. Developmental Change and Human Health. The Biometeorology of Health Status. The Pollution Syndrome. Geographies of Disease in Economically Developed Areas. Disease Diffusion in Space. Health Care Delivery Systems Worldwide. Distribution of Health Care Resources. Accessibility, Utilization, and Health Services Planning. Data, Measures, and Methodologies. Scale, Spatial Analysis, and Geographic Visualization. Concluding Words.