A geografia da saúde no Brasil: Estado da arte e alguns desafios [PDF]
, 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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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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Clinical features of endemic community-acquired psittacosis
New 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
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Raumforschung 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
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An Analysis of the Proximity Based Polarisation of the Hospital Network of Moldavia’s Counties
Lucrările 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
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Mapping the Geographic Distribution of Tungiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa
Tropical 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
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The influence of medical and geographical factors on the appearance and development of allergic rhinitis and eczema among school children in Belgrade [PDF]
Glasnik 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
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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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Frontiers 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
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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
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