Maps show population changes, incidence of diseases, including tuberculosis, cancer, and AIDS, and the distribution of physicians, dentists, and hospitals

Disease and Medical Care in the United States: A Medical Atlas of the Twentieth Century

Shannon, Gary W.

Pyle, Gerald F.

Medical Books

Macmillan Library Reference

Applied Medical Geography (Simulation Monographs)

Medicine

V.H. Winston

This pioneering study of the geography of influenza during the twentieth century explores how geographical factors contribute to the periodic diffusion of influenza epidemics in the United States, adding a spatial dimension to national efforts to control the disease. Pyle brings together findings from history, virology, epidemiology, and demographics to develop a geographic model of influenza transmission.

The Diffusion of Influenza

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This volume examines these geographic patterns and discusses possible underlying conditions contributing to them. The book begins with a discussion of HIV, its structure, impact on the immune system and other parts of the body, and primary modes of transmission. From here it proceeds to the major theories and hypotheses offered for the geographic origin of the HIV. The complex African experience is presented next. Africa is particularly important because of high numbers of infected people and the potential destructive force of AIDS to many of the developing nations there. The progession of the HIV infection and AIDS through Europe and the United States is considered in subsequent chapters. The European experience may be traced to formerly strong colonial connections to sub-Saharan Africa and close ties to the United States. Data presented here on HIV infection and AIDS in the United States permit a close examination of the progress of the infection from major coastal metropolitan areas to smaller cities and the interior of the country. The authors show how ill-prepared our current health care system is to handle the problem and what changes need to be made. The concluding discussion is devoted to conceptualizing and modeling the spatial/temporal diffusion of the disease at the international as well as the national and local levels.\lt\

The Geography of AIDS

Politics & Social Sciences

Bashshur, Rashid L.

Social Sciences

The Guilford Press

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