... diseases, the propagation of basic rules of hygiene, and the creation of a network of nursing and medical facilities, etc. During the occupation, the institutional framework underwent a fundamental change, and measures to stop the spread of infectious diseases were improved. One of the main trends...

... and Buhaya's marital instability before the 1960s and surprisingly high disease burdens. Angola Botswana Chad fertility Gabon Kampala Kibaale district Rwanda Zimbabwe breastfeeding Caldwell Jack cash crops censuses Christianity Cordell Dennis demographic surveys education family size Gregory...

... of weapons of mass destruction. And fifth, in all of this and everywhere we find the disease of reification/entification of our newly realised world historical problem, the increasing disparity of well being. These are the diseases of language investigated here. well being social interaction categorisation...

...Fig. 15.1 Learmonth’s map of cholera in India, 1921–1940. Source: Reproduced in Pacione ( 1986 , 45, Fig. 2.3). Fig. 15.2 Spatial modelling of disease. Cliff and Haggett’s modification of the Bartlett model to show the relationship between epidemic cycles in communities...

... of environment, place and space, and the applied geography of map making and planning. The book also addresses specific issues such as disease, urbanization, regional viability, and ethics and social problems....

...This chapter argues that the intensification of long-distance trade from the 1860s increased mortality levels due to famine, heightened conflict, and new epidemic diseases in Buganda and Buhaya much more than in Ankole. The colonial takeover quickly reduced the incidence of war-related deaths...