Geography
580/HSERV 586 2011
Wednesdays 2:30-5:20, Health
Sciences E-214
Professor:
Jonathan D. Mayer, Professor,
Departments
of Epidemiology, Geography, and Global Health, and Adjunct Professor, Medicine
(Infectious Diseases), Family Medicine, and Health Services
Office
hours: By appointment
Offices:
F-259 Health Sciences (Epidemiology); 412-C Smith Hall (Geography)
Tel:
206-543-7110
Please
write to both addresses.
Class listserve—any of you can post. This address applies
to both the HSERV and GEOG sections.
Hserv586a_au11@uw.edu
When
communicating with me, please put ÒURGENTÓ in the subject line (I am getting
150 emails per day and until this gets straightened out, the ÒURGENTÓ will
alert me to the fact that it is an important email.
The
purpose of this course is to provide a broad introduction to medical geography
in a seminar format. This is not a
lecture class. The emphasis will be on scientific medical geography. It is
assumed that students have some background in medical geography, epidemiology,
or the health-related social sciences.
In a
course/seminar that is as short as this, it is inevitable that some topics will
not be covered. However, I am very open to student suggestions, preferences,
and interests. On the first day of class, I will solicit your suggested changes
to the course topics that follow. Thus, the topics are only suggested topics
and are contingent upon specific interests, and readings will follow once I have
ascertained your interests. As seminar students, you will have two weekly
responsibilities: one is to form groups to kick-off each session (to be
discussed in class), and the other is to complete the readings prior to the
class session.
There
is no textbook for the class. Readings will be both emailed to the class list,
and put on e-reserve.
There
is only one written requirement for this class: a term paper on a topic of
interest to you (worth 90% of your grade; participation is worth 10%) It should
be written as though you are submitting it to a professional journal. Thus, the
paperÕs length and format will be determined by what is acceptable in journals
in your specific fields. The paper can be empirical or more theoretical;
however, it does need to deal with a topic that you can justify as having medical
geographic content. The work that you cite does not need to have been conducted
by geographers—you will find quintessentially geographic work by medical
entomologists, geneticists, medical anthropologists, epidemiologists, and many
others. Projects by small groups are acceptable, since this is the manner in
which most research is conducted and published, as long as you clarify the
separate responsibilities of each group member.
Please
come to seminar prepared to discuss the readings.
September 28
Introduction to course and to
medical geography
Structure
of Medical Geography
Reading:
Mayer J. Epidemiologic medical geography in Companion to Medical Geography. Word
processed document.
Rosenberg, M. W. (1998).
"Medical or health geography? Populations, peoples and places." International
journal of population geography : IJPG 4(3): 211-226
Mayer, J. D. and M. S. Meade
(1994). "A Reformed Medical Geography Reconsidered." Professional
Geographer 46(1): 103-106.
Kearns, R. and G. Moon (2002).
"From medical to health geography: novelty, place and theory after a
decade of change." Progress in Human Geography 26(5): 605-625.
Scan Social Science and Medicine (available
through our e-journals) for 2007, Vol. 4, issue 1, pp. 1-72.
Read ÒIntroductionÓ by Earikson and ÒReportÓ by Sarah
Curtis. Also read at least two other articles of your choice.
Scan Health and Place from the last two years
(2008-9) and read at least two articles of your choice.
October
12
The
Ecology of Infectious Disease: Concepts
Saltenspiel, L. Tropical environments, human activities, and the transmission of
infectious diseases. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 2000;43:3-31.
Meade, M. S. (1976). "Land
development and human health in West Malaysia." Annals of the
Associaiton of American Geographers 55(3): 428-439.
Meade, M. S. (1977). "Medical
Geography as Human Ecology: The Dimension of Population Movement." Geographical
Review 67(4): 379-383.
Eisenberg, J. N., M. A. Desai, et
al. (2007). "Environmental determinants of infectious disease: a framework
for tracking causal links and guiding public health research." Environmental
health perspectives 115(8): 1216-1223
Plowright, R. K., S. H. Sokolow, et
al. (2008). "Causal inference in disease ecology: investigating ecological
drivers of disease emergence." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
6(8): 420-429.
Levine, M. M. and O. S. Levine
(1994). "Changes in human ecology and behavior in relation to the
emergence of diarrheal diseases, including cholera." Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 91(7):
2390-2394.
October
19
Ecology
of Infectious Disease II
Jones, K. E., N. G. Patel, et al.
(2008). "Global trends in emerging infectious diseases." Nature
451(7181): 990-993.
Wilcox,
B. A. and D. J. Gubler (2005). "Disease ecology and the global emergence
of zoonotic pathogens." Environmental health and preventive medicine
10(5): 263-272.
Mayer, J. D. (1996) "The
political ecology of disease as a new focus for medical geography." Progress
in Human Geography 20(4): 441-456
King, B. (2009). "Political
ecologies of health." Progress in Human Geography 34(1): 38-55.
Zheng, J. et al. Relation
between the transmission of Schistosomiasis japonica
and construction of the Three Gorge Reservoir. Acta Tropica 2002;82:147-56.
October
26
Spatial
Analysis and GIS
November
2
Geography
and Chronic Diseases
November
9
Modeling
the Geographical Spread of Infectious Disease
November
16
Geographic
Inequalities and Access to Health Care; Urban/rural comparisons
November
23
Geographic
Epidemiology of Psychiatric Issues; Emergency Medical Services
November
30
Small
Area Analysis and Comparative Effectiveness
December
7
No
class. JDM at American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.