商品簡介
This interesting monograph on health and mobility examines the effects of four types of population movements on the spread of disease, the delivery of services, and the conceptualization of health in terms of place and physical context. The volume is divided into sections covering travel, migration, diffusion and communication and care, and individual chapters address such topics as tourism, epidemiology and care, migration and well-being, modernity and disease dispersion, and mobility in care and care-givers. Designed as an overview rather than an exhaustive study, the work draws on modern health literature as well as historical texts to investigate evolving patterns in beliefs about mobility and health. Gatrell is a professor of health at Lancaster University, UK. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Anthony C. Gatrell, Dean, School of Health and Medicine, and Professor of the Geography of Health, Lancaster University, UK
