UID:
almafu_9961574156202883
Format:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Edition:
1st ed. 2024.
ISBN:
9783031577628
Content:
This book provides a multi-disciplinary exploration of gender, public health, and disease with a focus on urban areas impacted by climate change. In three sections, global case studies are provided that analyze health risk management strategies in vulnerable populations containing high rates of mortality and disease morbidity. The sections are broadly divided along the themes, of women's health and gendered health challenges, demographic health issues such as aging populations, and the impacts of urbanization on health and the strategies to improve public health in urban areas such as green space projects. The book will be useful resource for students and researchers of health geography and public health, as well as public health practitioners and policymakers.
Note:
Chapter 1: Continuity of care: An analysis of care providers’ outlook on women’s experiences of unplanned/emergency cesarean section within the New Zealand maternity system -- Chapter 2: The Reproductive Health Status of Muslim Women and its Challenges: A Case of North 24 Pargana District, West Bengal, India -- Chapter 3: Decomposing SC-ST differences in Nutritional Status (BMI) among reproductive-aged women (15-49) in West Bengal -- Chapter 4: Genealogy Tells: Informing Health and Aging Policies using East Tennessean Older Women’s Family Histories, Perceptions, and Experiences of Health Inequity -- Chapter 5: Geographies of under five Malnutrition in Kano State, Nigeria -- Chapter 6: Spatio-temporal modelling of the five most prevalent cancers in Iran -- Chapter 7: Risk factor variations of US county-level cancer mortality, a geographic random forest approach -- Chapter 8: Prevention and control of leprosy in microregion Garças/Araguaia -- Chapter 9 Cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality: a geographical-based state-of art review -- Chapter 10: Spatio-temporal analysis of urban growth and impact of green space on human health; A comparative study on women and men -- Chapter 11: The influence of population density in the access to urban green spaces in the city of Lisbon as a potential contribution to a healthier city -- Chapter 12: Assessment of thermal comfort conditions as a factor influencing health problems -- Chapter 13: Heat vulnerability and its impact on public health in urban and peri-urban area -- Chapter 14: The Urban Heat Island impacts on mortality during a specific heatwave event in São Paulo, SP, Brazil -- Chapter 15 Overweight and food environment: a multilevel analysis in a Brazilian Metropolitan Region -- Chapter 16: Towards a malaria-free world for children: Geographic patterns of paediatric malaria transmission in Nigeria (2008-2018) -- Chapter 17: Demography of Aging and Degenerative Diseases Among Older Adults in Imo State, Nigeria from 2012 to 2021.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031577611
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-57762-8
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