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"This book is a world geography of emerging diseases from antiquity to the present day. The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of an unprecedented number of 'new' infectious diseases. This book looks at the epidemiological and geographical conditions which underpin disease emergence."

"ContentsGeographic foundations of environmental health hazards: the need for a place-based perspective -- Environmental health and disease indicators: valuation measures, transition frameworks and burden of disease estimates -- Population health disparities and social injustices: indicators and spatial patterns -- Conceptualization and measurement of race, ethnicity and class -- Environmental health data collection, analysis and visualization: an overview of geographic methodologies -- Global climate change and environmental degradation: place vulnerability and public health challenges -- A spatial analysis of emergent and re-emergent public health risks -- Toxic chemicals: disparate patterns of exposure and health outcomes -- Geographic principles of environmental justice and equity -- Global geographies, environmental injustice and health inequities -- Population disparities in water access, sanitation and health implications -- Food justice, nutritional security and paediatric health outcomes -- Poverty, race and place: a triple whammy hypothesis for minority health geographies -- Globalization, population mobility and immigrant health disparities -- Group disparities in access, quality and utilization of health resources -- Exploring pathways to environmental, health and social equity."