Spatial Analysis of Urban Health

Overview

Subject area

GEP

Catalog Number

610

Course Title

Spatial Analysis of Urban Health

Description

This course focuses on urban health issues using a geographical framework and covers topics such as the historical perspective of health, place, and society; mapping and measuring health and health impacts; the social and spatial patterning of health; the geography of health inequalities and disparities; health and social/spatial mobility; and the effects of urban segregation, overcrowding, and poverty on disease. Current research, as well as the seminal early works on the geographies of health, will be reviewed. Geographic Information Science will be used in the laboratory exercises to illustrate the theoretical concepts and to produce worked examples of health geography.

Typically Offered

Fall, Spring

Academic Career

Graduate

Liberal Arts

Yes

Credits

Minimum Units

3

Maximum Units

3

Academic Progress Units

3

Repeat For Credit

No

Components

Name

Laboratory

Hours

2

Name

Lecture

Hours

2

Course Schedule