Journal of Geography, Politics and Society, 2017 Significant, unexplained disparities in the incidence of lung cancer in men and breast cancer among some neighbouring populations of the Pomorskie voivodeship poviats were revealed. They were not found for lung cancer in women.
Maciej Krzanowski
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History and Main Research Currents in Polish Medical Geography
Quaestiones Geographicae, 2018 The main aim of the study is to present the history and the state of research in Polish medical geography. Its origins are the same as in world geography, i.e. it is associated with non-geographers.
Michalski Tomasz
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Medical topographies: Sources for the evolutionary study of territory and landscape [PDF]
Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2020 This research delves into the comprehensive treatment of textual geohistorical sources, promoting the procedures that currently advocate the recovery, analysis and opening of scientific knowledge in a transparent and extensive way to the society. Between
Alejandro Vallina Rodríguez* +2 more
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Risk for Human African Trypanosomiasis, Central Africa, 2000–2009
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 Comprehensive georeference records for human African trypanosomiasis in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon were combined with human population layers to estimate a kernel-smoothed relative risk function.
Pere P. Simarro +8 more
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Rurality or distance to care and the risk of homelessness among Afghanistan and Iraq veterans [PDF]
, 2017 INTRODUCTION: To date, no studies have examined the relationship of rurality and distance to nearest VA facility to risk of homelessness. METHODS: We examined differences in the rate of homelessness within a year of a Veteran's first encounter with
Brignone, Emily +8 more
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INFLUENCE OF CLIMATIC FACTOR ON NATURALLY DETERMINED DISEASES IN А REGIONAL CONTEXT
Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2018 The spread of almost all diseases caused by living pathogens is determined primarily by environmental conditions. These pathogens like any other biological objects are the components of the certain natural ecosystems.
Svetlana M. Malkhazova +3 more
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Health and place in historical perspective: medicine, ethnicity, and colonial identities [PDF]
, 2012 Introduction to special issue. This Special Issue includes articles first presented as papers at a two-day symposium held at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, in February 2011. The event was designed to highlight a large Royal Society of New Zealand
Coleborne, Catharine, McCarthy, Angela
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Assessing the methods needed for improved dengue mapping: a SWOT analysis
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2014 INTRODUCTION: Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral infection, is a growing threat to human health in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide. There is a demand from public officials for maps that capture the current distribution of dengue and maps that ...
David Frost Attaway +4 more
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Modelling spatial accessibility to medical care. Case study of the North-Eastern Region of Romania [PDF]
Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2015 Providing the entire population with the same accessibility to services of general interest is among the priorities of EU policy. Among these services, those concerned with medical treatment occupy a special place due to their social and economic ...
Mihail Eva , Corneliu Iatu
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Ethics, space, and somatic sensibilities: comparing relationships between scientific researchers and their human and animal experimental subjects [PDF]
, 2011 Drawing on geographies of affect and nature-society relations, we propose a radical rethinking of how scientists, social scientists, and regulatory agencies conceptualise human and animal participants in scientif ic research. The scientific rationale for
Birke L +33 more
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