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Author:   Yemi Adewoyin
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.945kg
ISBN:  

9783031412677

ISBN 10:   3031412672
Pages:   499
Publication Date:   31 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Health, Diseases and Development - An Introduction to Health and Medical Geography in Africa.- Part 1: Nature, Perspectives and Methods.- Chapter 2: Philosophy, Questions and Methods in Health and Medical Geography in Africa.- Chapter 3: Medical Geography in Nigeria – History, Debates and State of the Discipline.- Chapter 4: Traditional and Non-Traditional Data Sources useful in Research in African Health and Medical Geography.- Chapter 5: Mixed Research Methods for Buruli Ulcer Prevention in Southern Benin using Geographic Health Surveys.- Part 2: Environment, Health and Disease.- Chapter 6: Spatial Analysis of Antiretroviral Therapy among Adults in Zimbabwe HIV: Geo-additive Bayesian Survival Models.- Chapter 7: Mobility and Disease Diffusion in East Africa – The Case of HIV/AIDS, Ebola and Covid-19.- Chapter 8: Management and prevention of HIV infection in migrant miners in Lesotho and South Africa: A capabilities approach.- Chapter 9: Geographical Analysis of Malaria in Nigeria - Spatiotemporal Patterns of National and Subnational Incidence.- Chapter 10: Antimicrobial Resistance in a Changing Climatic Context: An Emerging Public Health Threat in Africa.- Part 3: Health and Wellbeing.- Chapter 11: Climate-Related Diseases and Health Impacts of Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 12: Spatial Distribution and Pattern Analysis of Women Sexual Violence in Tanzania.- Chapter 13: Associating Poverty with Gender-Based Violence (GBV) against Rural and Poor Urban Women (RPUW) in Cameroon.- Chapter 14: Menstrual Hygiene Management in the Context of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Policies – A Case of Schools in Nigeria Health.- Chapter 15: The Nexus between Development and Early Childhood mortality in Nigeria.- Part 4:  Location and Health Behaviour.- Chapter 16: Sanitation, Health Seeking Behaviour and Substance Use among Street Children in Ibadan, Nigeria.- Chapter 17: Human Geophagy (Soil Ingestion): Biochemical Functions and Potential Health Implications.- Chapter 18: Spatial Analysis of Breastfeeding Practices and Childhood Morbidity Episodes in Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study of a National Dataset.- Chapter 19: Test-Tube Transnationalism: Fertility Migrants and Reproductive Refugees and the Provision of Care Across Southern Africa.- Part 4: Health Inequalities and Healthcare Planning.- Chapter 20: Location, Accessibility and Socioeconomic Correlates of Child Immunisation Coverage in Nigeria.- Chapter 21: Approaches to Defining Health Facility Catchment Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 22: Access to Health Facility and Frequency of Antenatal Care Visits in Malawi using Bivariate Copula Regression Modelling.- Chapter 23: Territorial Study of the Distribution of Doctors in Gabon.

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Dr. Yemi Adewoyin is a Lecturer in the University of Nigeria's Department of Geography as well as a Research Fellow in Population Health and Spatial Demography at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. 

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