Medical Geography

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 33-54

  Mayer, Jonathan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

"medical" geography refinement and development of methods; Applying spatial analysis in cancer research; Calling for a new paradigm; Cancer research using spatial methods and concepts; Development of geography of disease or "epidemiologic" side of medical geography; Medical geography; Power and power dynamics and mediators of health; Spatial analysis in contagious disease spread identification; Spatial analysis of disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889268783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314762.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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