HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: 1811 German Coast Uprising, Anthropocene, Geologic Time Scale
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Ecological health: an embedded model of health, a nested hierarchy of person-family- community-ecosystem-planetary levels; interaction from the sub-cellular level to the biosphere. Anthropocene: earth"s most recent geologic time period characterized by human- influence;overwhelming global evidence that atmospheric geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are now altered by humans. Planetary health: the health of human civilization and the state of the natural systems on which it depends. Geography: the study of physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources and political and economic activities. Human geography: the branch of geography dealing with how human activity affects or is influenced by the earth"s surface. Health geography: a sub-discipline of human geography that deals with the interaction between people and the environment;views health holistic perspective encompassing society and space;focus is on the role of place, location and geography.
