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Geography and Health

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In recent years there has been an explosion of concern about out deteriorating environmental conditions and their impact on human health. In particular, researchers are becoming increasingly concerned that environmental degradation caused by human activites could lead into serious, long term health effects for human population. In the context of health care facilities, there are wide inequalities in their provision in different regions. Geopgraphic research into health care services in focused on identifying inequalities in health service delivery between classes, peoples and regions, can aid inthe efficient allocation of scarce health care resources.The book Geography and Health: a study in Medical geography includes cahpters covering various dimensions of environmental health, and health care patterns and planning. The book contains number of regional case studies with inputs on conceptual and thematic aspects. The book discusses contemporary issues, such as women's health, GIS and spatial epidemiology, health of industrail workers, changing scenario of leprosy, Andaman hemorrhagic fever, waterborne diseases, environemtn and nutrition, distribution of goitre, health status of children, health profile of traffic policeman, changing lifestyle and health, primary health services, health system research and management, tradtional medical system, and HIV/ AIDs diffusion. About Author : Dr. Nilofar Izhar is a bright and brilliant lady. She passed all her examinations in First Division and took the Master's degree in Geography in 1970, again in First Division. Subsequently she got herself enrolled for Ph.D. in 1973 and worked on a problem `Agricultural Productivity as a Component towards Regional Development in Western Uttar Pradesh( India)' under renowned geographer Prof. Mohanmmad Shafi and was awarded the degree of Ph.D. in 1981 from Aligarh Muslim University.Dr. Nilofar is gifted with academic spark and she continued her research work. She has contributed 24 research papers in National and International Journals. She participated and presented papers in International conferences at Paris, Rome, Sitges( spain), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Lusaka (Zambia) and at home she attended national conferences and presented papers at chennai, Bhopal, Vadodara and Delhi.In view of her brilliance, she was awarded Doctoral Fellowship by UGC, junior fellowhip by ICSSR, Postdoctoral fellowship of UGC, Research fellowship of ICSSR, CSIR pool scientist under prestigious scheme of Indian Scientists Abroad category, in 1986, and Research, Associateship of UGC in 1990. She was awarded Senior Fellowship by the ICSSR in 1998.What is remarkable about her academic flair is that she has launched a new refereed journal with the title" Region, Health and Health Care" in 1996. She deserves credit of publishing the first journal in the field of medical geography in India and journal is Indexed in " Indian Science Abstract" of Indian Natioanl Scientific Documentations Centre(INSDOC). She has worked as referee for the Internationa Journal of Social Science and Medicine, Oxford, U.K. (1989). She has been selected as memebr Editorial Board for the journal, published from the Department of Social and Preventive Medicen, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Contents : ForwordPrefaceAcknowledgementList of ContributorsIntroductoryEnvironment and Health ProblemsDevelopment, Lifestyle and HealthHealth Care Patterns and PlanningTraditional Medical System and Socio-cultural FrameworkStudies on HIV/ AIDSGIS, Remote Sensing and Health StudiesIndex


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  • ISBN-13: 9788176485883
  • Publisher: APH Publishing Corporation
  • Publisher Imprint: APH Publishing Corporation
  • ISBN-10: 8176485888
  • Publisher Date: 15 Nov 2005
  • Binding: Hardback


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