Showing papers in "Social Science & Medicine. Part D: Medical Geography in 1980"

TL;DR: This mauscript is intended to review past contributions on the seasonality of suicide, and suggests much must be accomplished in future analyses of the seasonal geography of suicide.

TL;DR: The investigation generally showed an extremely unequal distribution of private practice physicians in the Phoenix metropolitan area, and implications arise in the area of intraurban travel where the urban population makes excessively long trips to obtain medical care because physicians have located in a manner that is convenient for them but inefficient for their patients.

TL;DR: A review of the literature suggests that there are positive correlations between the two variables in Burma, Thailand and the Philippines, all of which have one wet season and prolonged “dry periods, but that the relationships in countries closer to the equator, such as Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, where there are two wet seasons, are unclear.

TL;DR: The results indicate that physicians who remain in the state for practice are more likely to be remaining where they are reared and where they were trained as interns.

TL;DR: Report on continuing research on colonial public health measure in South Asia from the 18th to 20th centuries examines accounts of smallpox variolation and vaccination from 1700 to 1865.

TL;DR: Examination of available data indicates that some forms of both genotypic and phenotypic metabolic adaptation occur in peoples with low intakes enabling them to utilize food energy more efficiently than those with high intakes, and an adaptive change in B.M.R. may play a major role in facilitating higher levels of metabolic efficiency in populations that are labelled “undernourished”.

TL;DR: This work applies the theory of directed graphs to hospital patient travel data for counties within Kansas in order to devise medical regions for that state and extends this procedure to patient flow data for the counties of West Virginia.

TL;DR: The results suggest the significance of income, education, job compatibility, household demographic structure and human capital change as a relevant policy parameter in relation to child care and breastfeeding.

TL;DR: An area of high population densities where food shortages are occurring in association with extremely low yields from the staple sweet potato gardens is revealed, and the major responsibility for gardening falls upon women who are incapable of maintaining adequate food production in the face of low and declining yields.

TL;DR: Case records of patients discharged from public hospitals in the southern half of New Zealand with connective tissue diseases during the period 1950–1973 were reviewed and there was a significantly increased morbidity of all CTDs as a group and for scleroderma in particular, in the Otago Hospital District.

TL;DR: Although the relationship between resource allocation and need was positive, it was found to be tenuous, with bed numbers, political pressure and the system's inertia being the more important determinants of allocation levels.

TL;DR: It is argued that restrictions on medical specialization will help to moderate rural urban disparities and policies should aim to optimize service distribution rather than to equalize service distribution.

TL;DR: Factor analysis performed on a variety of variables revealed a community structure whose most important dimensions were ethnicity, marital/ socioeconomic status, usual source of care, perceived health status, and housing conditions.

TL;DR: Results from a 1976 ophthalmological survey in the Northern Territory of Australia showing prevalence rates of active trachoma among Aborigines are analysed in respect to environmental conditions to yield high correlations with marginal changes in these environmental factors.

TL;DR: A measure of potential years of life lost (PYLL) is used to compare causes of death among several Southeast Asian countries to determine their positions in the epidemiologic transition.

TL;DR: Monsoon rains, higher humidity, vegetation, tribal habitats and rice-cultivation have definitive associations with the disease in those two states and the disease can be drastically controlled by the mid-eighties with the existing techniques.

TL;DR: The Tongan case study concluded nutritional considerations are not instrumental in increased urbanization in all developing national situations, and rural children appear to be superior in their physical state.

TL;DR: This paper will consider the darker side of this free enterprise society and, in particular, those who for reason of social failure or despair are driven to take their own lives.

TL;DR: A large-scale descriptive study of the 315 United States community hospitals registered with the American Hospital Association that closed permanently in the 7-year period of 1972–1978, revealing the anomalous distribution of closings revealed by aggregate data for the entire period.

TL;DR: The background to the problem of imported diseases in Australia with especial reference to increasing population movements, especially to and from the tropics is traced.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated three hypotheses to explain the role of accidents in the epidemiological profile of Taiwan: the notion of epidemiological transition, Chinese character traits, and culture in disequilibrium.

TL;DR: Proportion of Aboriginal population, percent ex-nuptial births, and index of heat discomfort are three of the most important variables in the variation of infant mortality among the statistical divisions of Australia.

TL;DR: Age-adjusted rates of mortality during 1950–1969 and 1968–1972 from 26 causes of cancer and age-specific rates of 4 causes were correlated with 71 hypothesized factors of elevated and reduced risk for 49 counties in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Delaware.

TL;DR: Examination of the incidence of some diseases and causes of death in Australia in relation to climatic factors finds that mortality from bronchitis and major circulatory causes has shown a biennial rhythm which is probably related to an atmospheric oscillation and warrants further study.

TL;DR: Analysis of data on perinatal mortality, 1972–1976, in the greater Hobart metropolitan region (Tasmania) indicates significantly higher death rates in two areas where other measures of social disadvantages are shown to occur.

TL;DR: A programme to provide guided medical self-help to a socially varied community in suburban Brisbane was based upon earlier detailed epidemiological investigation of, in particular, mother and child ill-health.

TL;DR: Inadequacies in health care resources in Pakistan are found to be due to poor planning, capital shortages, and failure to consider sociocultural factors.

TL;DR: The range of medical practice in Pakistan is examined, focusing on Sind Province in the south, with traditional practitioners appear to be losing ground to modern medicine, with westernized practices taking hold more rapidly in urban areas.