Disease ; Endemicdisease ; Health ; Medical geography ; Morbidity ; Spatial distribution ; United States of America
Coccidioidomycosis is endemic in the US Southwest; histoplasmosis occurs in the East and Central states. Suggests environmental relationships with these diseases both caused by soil fungi. - (DWG)
Caribbean ; Disease ; Health ; Latin America ; Medical geography ; Medical services ; Regional pathology ; Research ; Spatial analysis ; Tropical endemicdisease
Geographical research on disease ecology in the 1980s has examined the role of environmental characteristics in the distribution of particular diseases and the contribution of ecological and socioeconomic variables to differential risk of infection
. Research was also published on spatial patterns of health and disease and the provision of health services.―(DWG)
Accessibility ; Benin ; Disease ; Location ; Location-allocation model ; Medical services ; Service ; Tropical endemicdisease
This parasitic disease has a marked potential for eradication through a combination of water supply management, health education, and controlled medical intervention. These methods require the development of water wells and establishment of schools
. A model is developed to determine the best locations for the different types of facilities used to fight the disease.
AVHRR ; Africa ; Biota ; Central Africa ; Climatic variation ; Desert ; Dune ; Endemicdisease ; NOAA ; Palaeo-environment ; Palaeogeomorphology ; Pleistocene ; Quaternary ; Remote sensing ; West Africa
the Quaternary period, covered by windblown sand in the form of linear desert dunes. These findings have implications for Pleistocene refugia in Africa and may explain both the relative paucity and high degree of endemism observed among African biota.
mortality is high. Women play a major role among the various activities connected with itinerant agriculture and with the gathering of forest products. The woman's living conditions lead to different exposures to an important number of diseases.