Health Geography Research Graphic Organizer

Name:_Torriyah Kimble__________________
Period #:__1st_______________

Health Geography Research Graphic Organizer

Directions: FIRST, go to the following list of websites to fill in basic information on Health
Geography in the Graphic Organizer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_geography
http://anthro.palomar.edu/medical/med_1.htm
https://www.geolounge.com/intersection-health-sciences-geography/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1247193/
SECOND, search for information specific to your assigned disease using search terms such as:
Your Disease + health geography
Your Disease + spatial epidemiology
Your Disease + cultural traditions
Your Disease + religious beliefs
Your Disease + medical anthropology
Your Disease + spatial distribution map
Your Disease + history
REMEMBER, DO NOT COPY WORD FOR WORD. THAT IS PLAGIARISM.
Answer to the LeftHand Column
Question.

How do you know?

(Source)

How does this relate

to your disease?

What is Health
Geography?

Health geography is
the application of
geographical
information,
perspectives, and
methods to the study
of health, disease,
and health care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_geograph
y

Why do people study

it?

Health researchers
https://www.geolounge.com/intersectionstudy it because it
health-sciences-geography/
shows the interaction
between humans and
their environment that
could possibly lead to
illness.

How do people study

it? What kinds of

Researchers use GIS

which is geographic

www.esri.com/newd/arcuser/0702/overview.ht
ml

tools and experts do

they use?

information system to
study health
geography. The GIS
provides holistic
approach to public
health and it
promotes the well
being of human
populations.

Is there a lot or a little

information on your
disease related to
health geography?
Why do you think yes
or no?

There is not a lot of

health geography
related to my disease
(Leprosy). I think this
because leprosy isnt
really common like
other diseases.

http://www.sciencedir
ect.com/science/articl
e/pii/0277953688900
421

This relates to my
disease by showing
that there is not much
information on it
because of it not
being very common.

What are at least

Historical Treatments:
three different cultural
1) At various
methods of dealing
times blood
with this disease in
was
the modern day
considered to
and/or throughout
be a treatment
history? Be specific
either as a
on when the
beverage or
treatment has been
as a bath;
used.
sometimes
the blood of
children or
virgins was
required,
suggesting
associations
of ritual purity.
2) Alternative
treatments
included
scarification
with or without
the addition of
irritants
including
arsenic and
hellebore.
Castration
was also
practiced in
the Middle
Ages.

http://www.sciencedir
ect.com/science/articl
e/pii/0277953688900
421

This relates to my
disease by, showing
historical cultural
treatments of leprosy
and showing how
beliefs and time
periods played a role
in the treatments.

Disease: Leprosy/ Mycobacterium Leprae

3) A common
pre-modern
treatment of
leprosy was
chaulmoogra
oil. The oil has
long been
used in India
as an
Ayurvedic
medicine for
the treatment
of leprosy and
various skin
conditions.
Are there any specific
religious beliefs tied
into the cultural
methods of dealing
with this disease?
What are the religions
and how do their
beliefs impact how it
is dealt with?

Skin and skin

disorders have had
spiritual and religious
aspects since ancient
times. The shamans
who helped our
ancestors to survive
and who even today
in many areas of the
world help to treat
skin disorders in part
through spiritual
means believed that
negative spiritual
effects could help
produce illness and
that positive spiritual
effects could help
alleviate illness.
(I was not able to find
specific examples)

https://en.wikipedia.or This relates to my

g/wiki/Leprosy_stigm disease by showing
a
that there might have
been religious and
cultural belief
https://www.ncbi.nlm. methods. From my
nih.gov/pmc/articles/
research, I know that
PMC4128841/
almost all skin
disorders had
religious methods
tied with them.

What is the history of

this disease and
where/who does it
typically affect? Is
there a connection
between those two
questions?

Leprosy has
tormented humans
throughout recorded
history. The earliest
possible account of a
disease that many
scholars believe is
leprosy appears in an
Egyptian Papyrus
document written
around 1550 B.C.
Around 600 B.C.

https://web.stanford.e
du/group/parasites/P
araSites2005/Lepros
y/history.htm

Disease: Leprosy/ Mycobacterium Leprae

This relates to my
disease because it
shows the first
sighting and gives
information on where
it could have
started/originated
from.

Indian writings
describe a disease
that resembles
leprosy. In Europe,
leprosy first appeared
in the records of
ancient Greece after
the army of Alexander
the Great came back
from India and then in
Rome in 62 B.C.
coinciding with the
return of Pompeii's
troops from Asia
Minor.
Is this disease
increasing or
decreasing in
prevalence? Why?
Any specific cultural
methods helping or
hurting the spread of
it?

Leprosy was never

very common in the
first place. It is
decreasing in
prevalence. There
arent and cultural
methods helping or
hurting the spread of
leprosy at the
moment. Now with
modern methods,
leprosy is being
prevented in a better
way.

https://web.stanford.e
du/group/parasites/P
araSites2005/Lepros
y/history.htm

This relates to my
disease by showing
that over the years,
better treatments
have been developed
and for that reason,
leprosy isnt as
common as it was in
the past.

Are there any maps

showing the spatial
distribution of your
disease? Write down
the link of where to
find it/them under
source.

There are a few

maps, but not many.

http://www.scielo.br/s
cielo.php?
script=sci_arttext&pid
=S003786822013000300329

This relates to my
disease by showing
where it is most
common and where it
is not.

http://www.scielo.br/s
cielo.php?
script=sci_arttext&pid
=S003786822013000300329

Disease: Leprosy/ Mycobacterium Leprae