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Geographical Information Systems & Medical Geography

When Oct 13, 2011
from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Where PRCTRC Conference Room
Contact Name
Contact Phone 787-759-0306 Ext. 234
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Medical geography - also known as "health geographics" - is the branch of geography that deals with the study of environmental effects on people's health as well as the geographical distribution of diseases including the environmental effects of locale and climate upon health. It aims to improve the understanding of the various factors which affect the health of populations and hence individuals.

Speaker:
Jose Seguinot Barbosa, PhD, JD
Department of Environmental Health,
Graduate School of Public Health
UPR-Medical Sciences Campus

Funding

The project is supported by grant 8U54MD007587-03 (RCMI Clinical and Translational Research award, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus) from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIMHD or NIH.

Consortium Institutions

The Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium is a collaborative project of the the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, Universidad Central del Caribe and Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences.