Overview
- Brings together researchers and practitioners in the fields of health and medical geography in Africa
- Shows how improvement in public health can catalyze development in Africa
- Written from an African perspective, by African and Africanist scholars, using wholly African case studies
Part of the book series: Global Perspectives on Health Geography (GPHG)
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This contributed volume focuses on the evolution and current state of the sub-discipline of health and medical geography in Africa. It encompasses theoretical and methodological issues as well as the current teaching and research capacities of institutions offering programs in health and medical geography in Africa. Further, the book will review the level of adoption of the sub-discipline in State policies and practice and also provide practical illustrations, with case studies, of how studies in the sub-discipline are central to the actualization of Africa's development agenda. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between health and development.
Through its direct and indirect impacts on labor productivity, population health and wellbeing matter for the social and economic development of households and national economies. Yet, health is not uniform in space. And so is development. Comparatively on many health and development indicators, Africa fairs poorly. The variation in health may present as differences in the occurrence and spread of diseases, the distribution of and access to healthcare facilities, and/or in health outcomes among the population. Reasons for these variations range from biology to the population’s levels of exposure and susceptibility to elements in their environment, including the social interactions taking place within the environment.
The field of health and medical geography focuses on the spatial patterns and processes underlying these variations and provides pathways for understanding and addressing them. More specifically, the sub-discipline of health and medical geography focuses on, among others, how places (their characteristics and processes that go on in them) and environmental factors underlie and/or influence disease patterns, exposure and susceptibility to diseases, health variations, health behavior, health outcomes, and the provision of and access to healthcare services. This volume documents perspectives and applications in health and medical geography in Africa for academics, students, health practitioners, and development policymakers.
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Nature, Perspectives and Methods
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Environment, Health and Disease
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Health and Wellbeing
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Location and Health Behaviour
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Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health and Medical Geography in Africa
Book Subtitle: Methods, Applications and Development Linkages
Editors: Yemi Adewoyin
Series Title: Global Perspectives on Health Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41268-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41267-7Published: 31 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41270-7Due: 13 November 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41268-4Published: 30 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2522-8005
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 499
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 94 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geography, general, Public Health, Health Care Management