課程資訊
課程名稱
健康與醫學地理
Health and Medical Geography 
開課學期
100-2 
授課對象
理學院  地理環境資源學研究所  
授課教師
李 杰 
課號
Geog5077 
課程識別碼
228 U2890 
班次
 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期三6,7,8(13:20~16:20) 
上課地點
地理502 
備註
總人數上限:10人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1002healthgeography 
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課程概述

醫學地理的理論基礎是研究如何讓環境發展與人類健康取得平衡。
健康地理學則研究人群健康狀況的空間模式及其與環境的關係,探討平衡破壞的原因及其空間分布模式,亦研究維持平衡的條件。
 

課程目標
This course aims at introducing to students major concepts and theories in health and medical geography. Focus will be placed on recent discussion and advances in this field, especially those with geospatial analysis and geographic information systems.  
課程要求
希望讓更多的台灣學生認識「健康與醫學地理」的領域。故開授U字頭課程。
授課教師將針對大學部、碩士班、博士班學生給予不同的考評要求與學術上的訓練。
Examinations: All students are required to take both the mid-term examination and the final examination. Both examinations will be in the format of short-answer and essay questions.

Book Review: All students registered in Master degree program are required to do a book review. The selection of the book to be reviewed should be approved by the instructor by the 5th week. An acceptable outcome should be a manuscript ready for submission to academic journals in geography.

Review Paper: All students registered in PhD degree program are required to develop a review paper that should cover recent (since 1995) studies carried out in the area health and medical geography in Taiwan. This review paper should address developments of research on Taiwan’s health and medical geography in terms of methods, data used, and outcome.
 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
Brown, Tim, Sara McLafferty, and Graham Moon, eds. (2010) A Companion to Health and Medical Geography. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. 610p. (Selected Chapters)

Meade, Melinda (2010) Medical Geography, 3rd Ed. New York: Guilford Press. 498p. (Selected Chapters)

McLafferty, Sara and Ellen Cromley (2002) GIS and Public Health. New York: Gilford Press. 340p. (Selected Chapters)
 
參考書目
 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
mid-term examination 
40% 
graduate- 40% undergraduate- 30% 
2. 
final examination 
60% 
undergraduate- 60% graduate- 30% 
3. 
book review 
40% 
graduate(MA)-40% 
4. 
review paper 
40% 
graduate(PhD)-40% 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
2/22  Introduction to Health and Medical Geography 
第2週
2/29  Health Geography 
第3週
3/07  Medical Geography 
第4週
3/14  Disease, Ecology, and Environment 
第5週
3/21  Mapping Disease 
第6週
3/28  Infectious Disease Diffusion 
第7週
4/04  Geographic Modeling of Chronic Disease 
第8週
4/11  Mid-Term Examination 
第9週
4/18  Health Geography and Public Health 
第10週
4/25  Migration and Health 
第11週
5/02  Neighborhoods and Health 
第12週
5/09  An environmental Health Geography of Risk 
第13週
5/16  Healthy Population 
第14週
5/23  Providing Health Care 
第15週
5/30  Accessing Health Care 
第16週
6/06  Location-Allocation Planning 
第17週
6/13  The Changing Geography of Care 
第18週
6/20  Final Examination