Description |
vii, 150 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
Characteristics of the population at risk -- Historical overview -- Population changes -- Deaths and diseases -- Death registration area -- Medical care -- General population characteristics -- Population growth in the twentieth century -- Population pyramids -- Population density -- Racial composition -- Per capita income -- Geographic patterns of infirmity and mortality -- Lingering morbidity problems: tuberculosis and influenza -- Tuberculosis -- History -- Etiology -- Epidemiology -- Geographic patterns in mortality rates -- Influenza -- Geography and influenza genetics -- International dimensions of the 1918-1919 pandemic -- Influenza in the 1920s -- Geographic patterns in mortality rates -- Chronic disease mortality: an overview -- Geographic variation -- Coronary heart disease -- Geographic patterns in mortality rates -- Male-to-female mortality ratios -- Cerebrovascular disease -- Geographic patterns in mortality rates -- Cancer -- Lung cancer -- Geographic patterns in mortality rates -- Breast cancer -- Etiology -- Macroscale geographic comparisons. |
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(cont) Geographic variations within the United States -- Stomach cancer -- Geographic patterns in mortality rates -- Infant mortality -- Mortality trends -- Causes of deaths -- Advances in medical care -- Advances in public health and social reform -- Geographic patterns in mortality rates -- AIDS -- Etiology and possible international origins -- Geography of AIDS in the United States -- Need for primary prevention -- Alzheimer's disease -- Difficulties in diagnosis -- Prevalence -- Suspected risk factors -- Geographic patterns in mortality rates -- Motor vehicle fatalities -- Development of the automobile industry -- Mortality rates -- Geographic patterns in mortality rates -- Medical care resources and treatment facilities -- Physician supply and distribution -- Nineteenth-century concerns -- Review and reform in the twentieth century -- Geographic patterns of physician distribution -- Dentist supply and distribution -- Geographic patterns of dentist distribution -- Distribution of hospitals -- Early hospital experience -- Hospital growth in the United States. |
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(cont) Geographic patterns in hospital bed distribution -- Distribution of mental health care -- Historical origins -- Geographic patterns in the distribution of mental health care. |
Subject |
Medical geography -- United States -- Atlases.
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Medical geography. |
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United States. |
Genre/Form |
Atlases.
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Subject |
Epidemiology -- United States -- Atlases.
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Epidemiology. |
Genre/Form |
Atlases.
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Added Author |
Pyle, Gerald F.
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ISBN |
0028973712 alkaline paper |
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