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Caldwell, J.C., Findley, S., Caldwell, P., Santow, G., Cosford,
W., Braid, J. and Broers-Freeman, D. (1990) What We
Know About Health Transition: The Cultural, Social and
Behavioural Determinants of Health, 2Volumes. Canberra:
Australian National University Press.
Cliff, A.D. and Haggett, P. (1988) Atlas of Disease
Distributions: Analytic Approaches to Epidemiological Data.
Oxford: Blackwell Reference.
Cliff, A.D., Haggett, P. and Smallman-Raynor, M.R. (1998)
Deciphering Global Epidemics: Analytical Approaches to the
Disease Records of World Cities, 1888-1912. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
de Leper, M.J.C., Scholtern, H.J. and Stern, R.M. (1995)
The Added Value of Geographical Information Systems in
Public and Environmental Health. Dordrecht: Kluwer
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DHSS (1980) Inequalities in Health: Report of a Research
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Social Security.
Drucker, E. and Vermund, S.H. (1989) Estimating
population prevalence of human immunodeficiency
virus infection in urban areas with high rates of
intravenous drug abuse: a model of the Bronx in 1988.
American Journal of Epidemiology 130(1), 133-42.
Eames, M., Ben-Shlomo, Y. and Marmot, M.G. Eyles, J.
(1997) Environmental health research: setting an
agenda by spinning our wheels or climbing the
mountain. Health and Place 3(1), 1-13.
Expert Advisory Group on Cancer (1995) A Policy
Framework for Commissioning Cancer Services. London:
Department of Health and the Welsh Office.
Fenner, F., Henderson, D.A., Arita, I., Jezek, Z. and Ladnyi,
I.D. (1988) Smallpox and its Eradication. Geneva: World
Health Organization.
Foster, H.D. (1992) Health, Disease and Environment.
London: Belhaven Press.
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I.M.Timaeus, J.Chackiel and L.Ruzieka (eds) Adult
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Frenk, J., Bobadilla, J.L., Sepulveda, J. and Cervantes, M.L.
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Gatrell, A. and Bailey, T.C. (1996) Interactive spatial data
analysis in medical geography. Social Science and Medicine
42(6), 843-55.
Giggs, J.A. (1973) The distribution of schizophrenics in
Nottingham. Transactions of the Institute of British
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The monumental Cambridge World History of Human
Disease, edited by Kenneth F.Kiple and published
by Cambridge University Press (Cambridge) in
1993, provides a comprehensive introduction to the
global history and geography of health and disease.
A useful overview of some contemporary themes
and approaches in medical geography is given in a
1996 special issue of Social Science and Medicine 42(6),
787-964, entitled Research in Medical Geography. For
a recently updated edition of his classic account of
health, disease and mortality in Great Britain, see
Howe, G.M. (1997) People, Environment, Disease and
Death: A Medical Geography of Britain Throughout the
Ages, Cardiff: University or Wales Press. One of the
more accessible introductory texts on the spatial and
environmental associations of many infectious and
some noncommunicable diseases is Learmonth, A.
(1988) Disease Ecology: An Introduction, Oxford:
Blackwell. Medical geographers have developed a
wide range of techniques for the spatial analysis of
health and disease data, many of which are outlined
in Cliff, A.D., and Haggett, P. (1988) Atlas of Disease
Distributions: Analytic Approaches to Epidemiological
Data, Oxford: Blackwell Reference. The fruitful
collaboration of medical geographers and public
health officials is illustrated in Gordon, A. and
Womersley, J. (1997) The use of mapping in public
health and planning health services', Journal of Public
Health Medicine 19(2), 139-47. Useful introductions
to the terminology and methods of epidemiology
are provided by Last, J.M. (1995) A Dictionary of
Epidemiology, New York: Oxford University Press,
and Beaglehole, R., Bonita, R. and Kjellstrom, T.
(1993) Basic Epidemiology, Geneva: World Health
Organization.
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Bailey, T.C. and Gatrell, A. (1995) Interactive Spatial Data
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