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What is Health
Geography?
Health Geography is
the usage of
geographical
information,
perspectives, and
methods applied to
health, disease,
and health care
studies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_geograph
y
It was influenced by
the shifting of a
medical model to a
social model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_geograph
y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_geograph
y
There is a lot of
information on health
geography for
syphilis. I think this is
because syphilis has
been around for a
long time and people
want to know where it
transfers from.
http://www.cdc.gov/st
d/stats11/syphilis.htm
Health geography
relates to syphilis
because people
study where it comes
from in order to
understand how to
slow down the
transferring of syphilis
http://journals.lww.co
m/stdjournal/fulltext/2
014/11000/Spatial_E
pidemiology_of_the_
Syphilis_Epidemic_in.
1.aspx
http://childrenshealth
care.org/?
page_id=195
Is this disease
increasing or
decreasing in
prevalence? Why?
Any specific cultural
methods helping or
hurting the spread of
it?
Syphilis has
decreased since
2013 by15 percent.
Treatments,
prevention, and
informing people
helped the disease
decline. Modern day
treatments are
helping prevent the
spread of syphilis.
http://www.cdc.gov/nc
hhstp/newsroom/201
5/std-surveillancereport-pressrelease.html
This is related
because the increase
and decrease allows
health geographers
to understand why
syphilis is increasing
or decreasing.
http://www.who.int/tdr
/publications/disease
_watch/syphilis_map/
en/
This relates to
syphilis since it allows
health geographers
to see what places
have higher cases of
syphilis and they can
use that to figure out
why they have a
higher amount.