1 - Measuring food and health

This unit looks at how food and health can be measured. It seeks to explore the reliability of indicators. Global patterns of health and food will be described. It also investigates the nutrition and epidemiological transition.

Geographic Inquiry

Ways of measuring disparities in food and health between places.

Synthesis, Evaluation and Skills

The spatial interaction between geographies of health and food/nutrition.

How patterns in health and the diffusion of disease can be represented graphically.