Health Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. Medical Geography (Routledge Revivals)

   Progress and Prospect

   Edited by Michael Pacione

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Geographers have for a long time contributed much valuable detailed data on the geographical patterns of disease and health care delivery to the medical world. On its first publication in 1985, this edited collection addressed the need for a review of progress in the field of medical geography that...

   Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Health and Environmental Impact Assessment

   An integrated approach

   By British Medical Association

   Health and the environment are intimately linked. Bad environments can cause ill-health, whether it be asthma worsened by air pollution, poisoning by exposure to hazardous substances, injury caused by fast-moving machinery, stress due to noise or social isolation resulting from poorly designed...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. The Politics of Population

   Cairo 1994

   By Stanley Johnson

   Series: Health and Population Set

   The International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994 represented a remarkable watershed. Not only did it produce an unprecedented degree of agreement among the 179 countries and thousands of non-governmental organizations taking part, it also created a wide-ranging Programme...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Reality of Aid 2000

   An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance

   By Judith Randel, Tony German, Deborah Ewing

   Series: Aid and Development Set

   NOW IN ITS SEVENTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid 2000 looks at how the performance of OECD donor countries on aid and development cooperation has matched up to the challenge of eliminating absolute poverty. The report charts some improvements at the level of donor policy and rhetoric. But its...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Coping with Population Challenges

   By Louise Lassonde

   Despite rapidly decreasing rates of population growth caused by reduced fertility in the majority of world regions, demographers are predicting that the world's population will still double by the year 2050. The question is therefore no longer the traditional one of whether the planet can support...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Health and Climate Change

   Modelling the impacts of global warming and ozone depletion

   By Pim Martens

   'Understanding how complex ecological and climatic change can influence human health is the new challenge before us. The book confronts these multidimensional risk assessments head-on and will catalyse the important interdisciplinary and integrated approach that is the new paradigm now required for...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Waste Not Want Not

   The Production and Dumping of Toxic Waste

   By Robert Allen

   Series: Environmentalism and Politics Set

   No-one wants toxic waste dumped in their back yard. Dioxins and furans from incinerators, dangerous chemicals leaching from landfill sites and the apparently random dumping of nuclear waste are all clear threats to our health and lives. In fact any waste not properly dealt with can become dangerous...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. Marginalized Reproduction

   Ethnicity, Infertility and Reproductive Technologies

   Edited by Lorraine Culley, Nicky Hudson, Floor van Rooij

   Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series

   Worldwide, over 75 million people are involuntarily childless, a devastating experience for many with significant consequences for the social and psychological well-being of women in particular. Despite greater levels of infertility and strong cultural meanings attached to having children, little...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. The Reality of Aid 1997-1998

   An independent review of development cooperation

   By Judith Randel, Tony German

   Series: Aid and Development Set

   NOW IN ITS FIFTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid continues to present the most comprehensive and rigorous independent analysis available of the aid and development policies of the world's richest nations, and exposes the gaps between rhetoric and reality. Part I presents a consideration of...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. The Reality of Aid 1996

    An independent review of international aid

    By Judith Randel, Tony German

    Series: Aid and Development Set

    'Should be on the shelf of any academic, student, NGO activist or politician with an interest in aid issues. It should also be required reading for donor agency officials' Development and Change 'As accessible as it is comprehensive? has established itself as a reliable 'watchdog' for anyone...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge