Barford, A. and Dorling, D. (2007) The shape of the global causes of death. International Journal of Health Geographics, 6. 48. ISSN 1476-072X
Abstract
Background: World maps can provide an instant visual overview of the distribution of diseases and deaths. Results: There is a particular geography to each type of death: in some places many thousands of deaths are caused by a particular condition, whilst other equally populous areas have few to no deaths from the same cause. Conclusion: Physicians and other health professionals often specialise in the specifics of causes, symptoms and effects. For some practitioners gaining a worldview of disease burden complements smaller scale medical knowledge of where and how people are affected by each condition. Maps can make health related information much more accessible to planners and the general public than can tables, text, or even graphs. Ten cartograms based on World Health Organisation Burden of Disease data are introduced here; alongside seven based on data from other sources. The Burden of Disease cartograms are the latest in a much larger collection of social, economic and health world maps.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Barford and Dorling; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2007 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Vice-Chancellor's Office (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2018 11:57 |
Last Modified: | 06 Mar 2018 11:57 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-6-48 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1186/1476-072X-6-48 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:128086 |