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6 How Does Where People Live Affect Their Health?
6 How Does Where People Live Affect Their Health?
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Addressing some of the major health challenges of The influence of location on health is clear even at the 21st century requires developing increasingly sophisthe global scale. The best way to reduce the worldwide ticated theories, methods, visualizations, and tools that burden of disease may be to provide individuals with can help account for the intersecting impacts of these six ready access to clean water, adequate nutrition, and variables in different locations (Figure 6.1)
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. More sophisticated useful, this approach often fails to take into account analyses of locational influences on malaria are vital to the range of locational influences that affect diseases or several current international initiatives aimed at halting the temporal and spatial complexities that arise from the spread of malaria, including the Multilateral Initia disease latency and individual mobility through the tive on Malaria, which is part of the United Nations life course.
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. Second, issues provide examples of the substantial problems congeographical science tools allow researchers to ask fronting health researchers that the technical arsenal of questions about the factors present in an area that cor- the geographical sciences can help resolve.
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Like to humans, animals, or plants via an insect or other Rift Valley fever, outbreaks of malaria, yellow fever, or B A FIGURE 6.2 (A) Geographical distribution of the genotypes identified for 142 H5N1 viruses isolated in Vietnam from 2003 to 2007, with the viral genotype of each H5N1 isolate mapped chronologically to show the time of genotype isolation in different regions of Vietnam.
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. Climate models predict highly socioeconomic status, cultural and social norms, and spatially heterogeneous changes in UV radiation as a function of atmospheric CO2 doubling (Figure 6.3)
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The results showed that poor geographical research on whether cancer patients living in commu- access to primary health care had significantly increased the nities with poor access to primary health care have a risk of late diagnosis. The study also showed that spatial access to primary health care was more important than similar access higher-than-average risk of late-stage diagnosis (cancer to mammography.
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A geographically based, populationrepresentative sampling the worst-affected region, national adult prevalence scheme allowed Michael Emch and his colleagues to construct exceeds 15 percent in seven countries. Women account this visualization, which was then used to examine the impacts for nearly 60 percent of HIV infections in Sub-Saharan of social factors on the distribution of HIV/AIDS.
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. As a result of globalization, the media, including health programs including antiretroviral access, incinema, television, and the Internet, provide Africans fluence the success or failure of HIV/AIDS control with new sexual imagery, and undermine traditional efforts, as do policies that address poverty and social boundaries of sexuality and sexual expression.
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