Exam 1 Study Guide
Here is a list of the general topics we have covered so far. This list is not exhaustive. To prepare
for the exam, we suggest you go through the lecture slides and note the key terms and concepts
covered in each lecture. Additionally, you should note the key ideas from each reading.
Geography Concepts:
- What is the study of geography?
- What is place?
- What is space?
- How do places interact?
- Accessibility?
- Connectivity?
- Networks?
- Population mobility and migration
- Migration vs. mobility
- “Collapse of geographic space”
- Contacts and connection
- Why does it matter? Infections spread across time and space.
- What is health geography?
- How do health geographers study health?
- What are the three approaches?
- What kinds of questions do we ask?
Health Geography and Epidemiology:
- What is health, and how do we measure it?
- What are three approaches to studying emerging diseases and health geography?
- Population demographics useful for health geography:
- What are some ways we measure fertility?
- What are some ways we measure mortality?
- What are some ways we measure morbidity?
- What is the difference between an infection and a disease?
- Types of disease?
- Transmission?
- Prevalence vs. Incidence
- “At-risk”
- Person-time
- What is the “coronavirus?”
- Virus vs. disease
- Infectivity, incubation period
- Symptoms
- Ages at-risk
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- Prevention
What are other coronaviruses?
What are some other outbreaks/epidemics we have discussed?
What concepts of health geography do we see playing out in the COVID-19 pandemic?