GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Economic Mobility, Canada Health Act, Cartogram
7 Apr 2016
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Well being: to the extent to which individuals and groups have access to the resources and services required to meet their needs and aspiraions (economic, social, psychological) Components of well being include necessiies and non necessiies. How well and easily can we meet our various needs. Medical geography: the geographic, spaial context of health (the spaial paterns and processes of health and medical well being) Distrubution: spaial paterns of health, disease (availability of health care map of. Devlivery: provision of health care services (what services available where, do we have equal access to them?) Variaions in mortality and morbidity observed at all geographic scales. Spaial patern of annual death rates per 1000 males in the 55-64 age group for 1980- Death rate is higher in the industrial area; death rate is lower away from the city (not only where it is highest but where it is lowest)
