The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing in the United States, particularly among minority individuals. Primary prevention programs for diabetes must be designed to address the beliefs of the populations they target. Little research has investigated the beliefs of those who do not have...

Chronic disease is a significant and costly social problem. The burden is even more pronounced in communities with high rates of a particular chronic disease. Assessment of health belief systems and the local geographies of health beliefs can assist community health planners to create...

This paper introduces a space-time continuum model to evaluate the effectiveness of programs that encourage recruitment and retention of health professionals. Based on the shape of a wineglass, the model provides a framework to study the locational histories of a cohort of health professionals,...

This paper attempts to shed some light on the recent debate between those who advocate a reformed medical geography and those who respond that reform is not necessary. We show that disease ecology and a reformist alternative display certain tendencies in the ways in which they address issues of...

Employing an expanded meaning of the concept of landscape taken from the 'new' cultural geography, this paper explores why certain places or situations are perceived to be therapeutic. Themes from both traditional and recent work in cultural geography are illustrated with examples from the...

Three perspectives on the place of DCs in the United States health care delivery system were derived from the social science literature; system status, cultural congruence, and utilization patterns. North Carolina was used as a case study site to examine these perspectives from a geographical...

In- and out-patient data from the only Western mental health instution in Sierra Leone, Kissy Mental Hospital in Freetown, were analyzed using basic epidemiological techniques. Although it could not be proved conclusively with the available data, the educational and occupational levels of the...

A 49-county region surrounding the urban corridor from New York through New Jersey to Philadelphia was the focus of an investigation of the spatial patterns of mortality from four types of heart disease: major cardiovascular, acute ischemic, chronic ischemic and cerebrovascular. The data used...