Geography of Health

3 credits · Undergraduate Programs

Explores geographies of health at different scales, emphasizing the link between health and place. Diverse perspectives to the geography of health (disease ecology, mapping, clustering and diffusion, transmission, and contagion) and health care are explored to learn about health and its connections with the environment, climate, people, and resources. Prerequisites: Geography 380 and 3 units from Geography 251, 253, 352, 354, Urban Studies 253.