lecture notes
GEO716: Lecture 1
what are geo's of health? medical - impurical, deals with dynamics and measuring disease itself health - environmental, economical, social, physical spread of disease, health care management incidents of disease = the number of new prevalence prevalence can be a good thing ... people surviving infinite morality rates ... kids who live to five will likely live to adulthood degenerative and chronic disease ... expensive to keep an aging population if you live to 60 likely to live to 90 non-communicable zoonotic = is a carrier i.e. rabies. animal gets sick and passes it on. HIV started from monkeys malaria is NOT. its transmitted by a mosquito. Malaria is a vector they just pass it on. Malaria is an acute infectious disease. its a disease of the poor, because we can afford health management systems and vaccines. urbanization = more pollution, more disease, more diabetes, but living longer, more chronic diseases, and no health care to support. this is called the double burden just as soon as there is a hold on diseases, you get hit with a major chronic disease they cant support sense of place - gps can be a great help for data accumulation and the issues, people, and vaccinations. allows to geo code everything. how far people are from hospitals and clinics, how fast it is to get help. what is a health outcome? is a measure. i.e life expectancy, or can be anything to do with a persons health notion of inequity and inequality inequality = nothing we can do. gender, age, ethnicity, location. given circumstances that there isn't much we can do about. people in rural areas are much more susceptible to disease. move by choice. inequity = not by choice. moving by displacement, war, disaster, and not getting the support you need. cant afford vitamins. rural areas tend to have longer rides to the hospitals. this is because a hospital is not likely to open a second one close to the existing one
what are geo's of health? medical - impurical, deals with dynamics and measuring disease itself health - environmental, economical, social, physical spread of disease, health care management incidents of disease = the number of new prevalence prevalence can be a good thing ... people surviving infinite morality rates ... kids who live to five will likely live to adulthood degenerative and chronic disease ... expensive to keep an aging population if you live to 60 likely to live to 90 non-communicable zoonotic = is a carrier i.e. rabies. animal gets sick and passes it on. HIV started from monkeys malaria is NOT. its transmitted by a mosquito. Malaria is a vector they just pass it on. Malaria is an acute infectious disease. its a disease of the poor, because we can afford health management systems and vaccines. urbanization = more pollution, more disease, more diabetes, but living longer, more chronic diseases, and no health care to support. this is called the double burden just as soon as there is a hold on diseases, you get hit with a major chronic disease they cant support sense of place - gps can be a great help for data accumulation and the issues, people, and vaccinations. allows to geo code everything. how far people are from hospitals and clinics, how fast it is to get help. what is a health outcome? is a measure. i.e life expectancy, or can be anything to do with a persons health notion of inequity and inequality inequality = nothing we can do. gender, age, ethnicity, location. given circumstances that there isn't much we can do about. people in rural areas are much more susceptible to disease. move by choice. inequity = not by choice. moving by displacement, war, disaster, and not getting the support you need. cant afford vitamins. rural areas tend to have longer rides to the hospitals. this is because a hospital is not likely to open a second one close to the existing one