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Clinical features of endemic community-acquired psittacosis

open access: yesNew Microbes and New Infections, 2014
Following a large outbreak of community-acquired psittacosis in 2002 in residents of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, we reviewed new cases in this area over a 7-year period from 2003 to 2009.
J.M. Branley   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A geografia da saúde no Brasil: Estado da arte e alguns desafios [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
A abordagem do processo saúde-doenças das populações humanas foi marcada, ao longo da história, por diferentes perspectivas. Ela saltou de concepções religiosas e naturalistas, predominantes até o s&
Kich Fogaça, Thiago   +2 more
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An Analysis of the Proximity Based Polarisation of the Hospital Network of Moldavia’s Counties

open access: yesLucrările Seminarului Geografic "Dimitrie Cantemir", 2018
Since 1990, the deficiencies of the widely criticised health care system of Romania have been analysed from economic, political and management related points of view, but the territorial dimension of this system was often neglected.
Andra-Cosmina Albulescu, Daniela Larion
doaj   +1 more source

GIS-gestützte Modellierung der Erreichbarkeiten ambulanter Pflegedienste nach SGB V und SGB XI in Unterfranken unter Berücksichtigung demographischer Entwicklungen

open access: yesRaumforschung und Raumordnung, 2020
Ziel des Beitrags ist die Untersuchung und Bewertung der Erreichbarkeit der Bevölkerung durch ambulante Pflegedienste in Unterfranken unter Einbeziehung der räumlich differenzierten Bevölkerungsstruktur für das Jahr 2017 sowie der voraussichtlichen ...
Burk Jannis   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping the Geographic Distribution of Tungiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020
The geographic distribution of tungiasis is poorly understood, despite the frequent occurrence of the disease in marginalized populations of low socioeconomic status.
Mark A. Deka
doaj   +1 more source

The influence of medical and geographical factors on the appearance and development of allergic rhinitis and eczema among school children in Belgrade [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Srpskog Geografskog Društva, 2014
Allergic rhinitis and eczema represent ailments which are increasingly linked with urban areas. Although they do not belong to illnesses which are predominantly caused by geographical factors, their importance for the development of these ...
Topalović Sanja
doaj   +1 more source

Suicidal journeys: attempted suicide as geographies of intended death [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In geography, a conversation around suicide survivors and their suicidal journeys has yet to happen. The current prioritisation of suicide as end points marked on maps and patterns of death in space and regions has obscured the lived experience of adults
Stevenson, Olivia
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Medical geography: has J.M. May borrowed M. Sorre's 1933 concept of pathogenic complexes?

open access: yesCybergeo, 2003
The conceptual and methodological framework of modern medical geography began in 1950s with the publication of the paper by J.M. May entitled: « Medical Geography: Its Methods and Objectives », in 1950 in The Geographical Review.
Rais Akhtar
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing complexity and dynamics in epidemics: geographical barriers and facilitators of foot-and-mouth disease dissemination

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023
IntroductionPhysical and non-physical processes that occur in nature may influence biological processes, such as dissemination of infectious diseases. However, such processes may be hard to detect when they are complex systems.
A. L. Hoogesteyn   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

On making disability in rural places more visible: challenges and opportunities [Introduction to a special issue] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This essay prefaces a special issue of the Journal of Rural Studies (JRS) concerned with a sub-field of inquiry that might be termed the rural geography of disability, addressing multiple dimensions of disability, physical and mental, associated with ...
Chouinard, Vera   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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