Women's status, environmental changes and child health in the riverine area of Ondo State, Nigeria
Health, environment and development
Children ; Enquiry ; Health ; Nigeria ; Quality of life ; Socio-economic system ; Status of women ; Village ; Vulnerability ; Woman
The paper uses the concept of vulnerability as a departure point from which to map the health risk to children in Igbekun area, an oil-rich coastal area of Nigeria. The paper attempts to highlight the poor quality of life and health of children
and how it is becoming much more difficult to practice health intervention programmes. The environmental crisis has deprived women of their traditional means of livelihood.
The development of geographical information systems for locality planning in health case
Développement local ; England ; Géographie humaine ; London ; Royaume-Uni ; Santé ; Services de santé ; Système d'information géographique
Les données nécessaires pour le développement local et caractéristique d'un système d'information géographique d'un service de santé : exemple district Tower Hamlet.
The Askeaton Investigation and the failure of Irish health information systems
Disease ; Health ; Information ; Information system ; Ireland ; Measurement
Information ; Irlande ; Maladie ; Mesure ; Santé ; Système d'information
Le Midwestern Health Board a entrepris une étude de l'état de santé de la population locale en identifiant des maladies liées à la pollution. Cependant, les systèmes d'information irlandais sur la santé présentent de nombreuses lacunes et sont loin
Cultural geography ; Disease ; Folklore ; Health ; Human ecology ; Medical geography ; Medical service ; Social space
Wide-ranging treatment of the following themes as they relate to health and disease : culture systems, culture regions, cultural ecology, cultural evolution, cultural diffusion, folk and popular culture, language, social space, place and landscape
A location-allocation model for health care services planning
A location-allocation model for regional health care services planning is presented which can be used to analyze the problems of the equity-revenue trade-off relation in the spatial provision of health car services in a free-entry and free
Disease ; Epidemic ; Health ; Hospital facilities ; Medical geography ; Medical services ; Mental illness ; Research
for geography, the provision of hospital services and competition as a theme of geographical healthsystem research, the geography of mental health, the concept of therapeutic landscapes, the new dimensions of medical tourism and the rebuilding and structure
The eight articles deal with the development from disease ecology towards to geography of health, the geographies of health in developing countries and emerging markets, the past and present of global epidemics and the question of a challenge
Regional inequalities in the hungarian healthsystem
Health ; Health policy ; Hungary ; Medical service ; Regional disparities ; Social policy
L'A. montre que les inégalités régionales du système de santé publique, dans sa structure et ses mécanismes, en Hongrie, sont étroitement liées avec les conditions socio-économiques, politiques et administratives. En étudie leur évolution, en
Systèmes d'information cartographique dans le domaine de la santé : l'exemple du land de Basse-Saxe (Allemagne)
Cartography ; Germany ; Health ; Information system ; Internet ; Niedersachsen ; Public sector
Allemagne ; Cartographie ; Internet ; Niedersachsen ; Santé ; Secteur public ; Système d'information
This paper addresses map-based information systems in the public health sector as an important application area in cartography. To illustrate the general overview, three examples of map-based information systems on infectious diseases from Lower
Saxony are presented. The article deals with public health sector, information systems and internet mapping. - (IfL)
Système d'information sur la santé publique à Budapest
Atmospheric pollution ; Budapest ; Demography ; Disease ; Geographical information system ; Health ; Hungary ; Living conditions ; Medical geography ; Town
Budapest ; Conditions de vie ; Démographie ; Géographie médicale ; Hongrie ; Maladie ; Pollution atmosphérique ; Santé ; Système d'information géographique ; Ville
public health, such as demography and living conditions, environmental pollution, district surgeries' data and the spatial distribution of the registeres cases of certain diseases. The system is meant to be used by experts of local government who
The aim of the paper is to introduce a special geographical information system elaborated in the Geographical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1991-94. It is a spatial graphic system consisting of 4 types of data concerning
are responsible for public health management. - (JS)
Increasing the productivity of community health workers in rural Nigeria through supervision in Field applications of operations research in primary health care within developing countries-Part II.
Accessibilité ; Communauté rurale ; Décision ; Fonction d'utilité ; Géographie de l'Afrique ; Nigéria ; Recherche opérationnelle ; Santé ; Services de santé ; Système d'information
Application d'une méthode de recherche opérationnelle : évaluation de l'utilité de stratégies alternatives, compte tenu des contraintes inhérentes au système, par analyse multicritère. Aide à la décision.
Multidimensional inequalities in health care distribution in provincial China : a case study of Henan province
China ; Core-periphery ; Health ; Healthsystem ; Henan ; Medical services ; Reform ; Regional disparities ; Rural area ; Spatial analysis ; Spatial distribution ; Urban area
Analyse spatiale ; Centre-périphérie ; Chine ; Disparités régionales ; Distribution spatiale ; Espace rural ; Espace urbain ; Henan ; Réforme ; Santé ; Services de santé ; Système de santé
The paper has two objectives: (1) examining the multi-scale health care inequality in Henan from two dimensions, urban-rural and core-periphery and (2) revealing the spatial effects of China's mul-tiple transitions, provincial development strategies
, and local economic development on health care distribution. The results illustrate that urban-rural and core-periphery gaps in Henan are still significant even though health care reforms and recent provincial policies have improved the access of rural
and peripheral areas to health care. Health care inequality is sensitive to geographical scale and clustering, and spatial patterns of health care are shaped by the interwoven forces at national, provincial, and local scales.
An integrated approach to measuring potential spatial access to health care services
The A. presents an integrated approach to measure potential spatial access to health care services. The final index starts with an initial gravity formulation and progresses through successive stages. It is applied to the ambulatory medical care
Networks in local healthsystems : towards new spaces ?
New spaces of the geographies of health and health care. Special issue
Canada ; Economic restructuring ; France ; Health ; Medical services ; Network ; Organization ; Quebec ; Territorial structure
Exemples de restructuration des systèmes de santé en France et au Québec. L'offre de soins tend à devenir de plus en plus intégrée. On a créé au Québec 95 territoires de la santé dotés d'une structure hiérarchisée, et de réseaux garantissant
continuité et qualité des soins. La géographie de la santé se modifie à l'échelle locale. En France, continuité et qualité des soins servent d'arguments pour justifier les changements dans l'organisation du système.
Free health clinics, resistance and the entanglement of Christianity and commodified health care delivery
Accessibility ; Health ; Identity ; Medical services ; Neo liberalism ; United States of America ; Value system ; Wisconsin
Accessibilité ; Clinique libre ; Etats-Unis ; Identité ; Milwaukee ; Néolibéralisme ; Résistance ; Santé ; Services de santé ; Système de valeurs ; Wisconsin
pratiques à l'intérieur de l'espace de santé. Ainsi l'identité chrétienne est confrontée à l'identité marchande des systèmes corporatifs pourtant non-lucratifs.
; Recherche ; Santé ; Sciences sociales ; Siècle XX ; Système sanitaire
The shift from the concept of illness to those of health care is reflected in a bifurcation of research directions within medical geography: the geography of disease on the one hand, and the geography of health care in the other. A geography
of health could re-integrate these two tendencies through an interdisciplinary spatial approach to regional analysis on the quality of health care in relation to all environmental variables.
A text book written by a team at the University of North Carolina that brings diverse subjects under one roof : human ecology of disease, landscape epidemiology, development and health, biometeorology, pollution, disease diffusion, health care
Health and health care in South Africa : the challenge for a majority ruled state
Health ; Health policy ; Medical service ; Rural development ; Social reproduction ; South Africa
pauvres en ville, hypertension, cancers et malaria... L'après-apartheid peut être marqué par une fuite des capitaux qui limitera d'autant les possibilités de réforme du système par l'Etat.