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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
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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
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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]

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
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How Can Geography and Mobile Phones Contribute to Psychotherapy? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Interdisciplinary relationships between Geography and Psychotherapy are an opportunity for innovation. Indeed, scientific works found on bibliographic databases and concerning this theme are scarce.
Aguilera, Adrián   +3 more
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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
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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
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Imperial landscapes of health: Place, plants and people between India and Australia, 1800s-1900s. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In the nineteenth century, place bore immediately and urgently on questions of imperialism, race, and health. This article considers European strategies to control local environments and improve healthiness through the exchange of people, plants, ideas ...
Beattie, James John
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British medicine in the Peruvian Andes: the travels of Archibald Smith M.D. (1820-1870) Medicina britânica nos Andes peruanos: as viagens do médico Archibald Smith (1820-1870)

open access: yesHistória, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2006
This article traces the travels of the Scottish physician Archibald Smith through the Peruvian Andes between the 1820s and 1860s. Despite his prominent role in the nineteenth-century Peruvian medical scene, almost nothing has been written on Archibald ...
Jorge Lossio
doaj   +1 more source

A retrospective cross-national examination of COVID-19 outbreak in 175 countries: a multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis (January 11-June 28, 2020)

open access: yesJournal of Infection and Public Health, 2020
Objective: This study retrospectively examined the health and social determinants of the COVID-19 outbreak in 175 countries from a spatial epidemiological approach. Methods: We used spatial analysis to examine the cross-national determinants of confirmed
Ayodeji Emmanuel Iyanda   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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