Tables of contents and article abstracts for a number of journals are increasingly being published on line. The following have been supplied by the Webmaster. I continually solicit your contributions to this resource ... thanks!

Miscellaneous recent journal articles and book reviews--

  • The assessment of health damage caused by air pollution and its implication for policy making in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, Energy Policy, in press, avail. online 8 November, Daisheng Zhang, K Aunan, HM Seip, S Larssen, J Liu & D Zhang

  • Associations between health and different types of environmental incivility: A Scotland-wide study, Public Health, in press, avail. 2 November, Anne Ellaway, G Morris, J Curtice, C Robertson, G Allardice & R Robertson

  • Climate change, related hazards and human settlements, Current Opinion in Environmental
    Sustainability    , in press, avail. 4 November, Gordon McBean & Idowu Ajibade

  • Of plagues, planes and politics: Controlling the global spread of infectious diseases by air, Political Geography in press, available online 2 November, Lucy Budd, Morag Bell & Tim Brown

  • Review: Green Intelligence: Creating environments that protect human health by John Wargo, The New Scientist, Vol 204, Issue 2732, 28 October 2009, p 49, Rob Edwards

  • Social capital, political trust and daily smoking and smoking cessation: A population-based study in southern Sweden, Public Health, In Press, 17 July 2009, M. Lindström

Health & Place
(Table of contents) Vol 16, Issue 1, Pages 1-174 (January 2010)

  • Articles by Mark Hunter, Rebecca Steinbach, Candace Nykiforuk, Jean Shoveller, Robin Kearns, Robyn Sampson, D'Arcy Holman, Akihiko Michimi, Isaac Luginaah, Anne Ellaway, among many others.

Social Science & Medicine (Selected Papers from recent issues)

Volume 69, Issue 11, Pages 1561-1700 (December 2009)

  • The estimation of mortality for ethnic groups at local scale within the UK, pp 1592-1607, Philip Rees, PN Wohland & PD Norman
  • Are rural health professionals also social entrepreneurs? pp 1651-1658, Jane Farmer & Sue Kilpatrick

Volume 69, Issue 10 Pages 1417-1560 (November 2009)

  • Running to the store? The relationship between neihborhood environments and the risk of obesity, pp 1493-1500, Cathleen Zick, KR Smith, JX Fax, BB Brown, I Yamada and L Kowaleski-Jones

Other Journal Links

Prepublication Announcement and Discount:
GIS in Hospital & Healthcare Emergency Management
by Ric Skinner, GISP -- with a foreword by R. Tom Sizemore III, MD, Principal Deputy Director, Office of Preparedness & Emergency Operations, US Department of Health & Human Services, Washington, DC
Publisher: Taylor & Francis/CRC Press
Estimated publication early Spring 2010 @ US$99.95
20% Discount ($79.96) until 11/30/2009 -- http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439821299
Order by E-mail from: orders@crcpress.com

The article, Medical Geography, from the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (July, 2009) is available gratis in pdf form from the author, Robert Earickson. Contact him and request a copy. Find email address in "Read About Us" link on the home page.

The article, Medical Geography, from the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (July, 2009), is available in PDF form from the author, Robert Earickson. Simply send him an email request for your copy
(see "Read About Us" link on the home page, for email address).

Bentham Open Publishers

Bentham Open is one of the leading international publishers for Open Access journals devoted to various disciplines in science and technology. Please refer to Bentham Open's website at http://bentham.org/open/ for a current list of publications.

Blackwell Publishing

S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil (York University, Toronto): Networked Disease. This is the latest in the Series Studies in Urban and Social Change. A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease management in progressively global and urban societies. For more information, visit the Blackwell Publishing site.

InstantAtlas: Presentation Solutions for Health Geographic Applications
InstantAtlas is an inexpensive, powerful data visualization and presentation tool. It enhances the value of data by making local patterns easy to see and explore. No expertise in data publishing, delivery or mapping is needed - yet the results can be stunning and effective. You can take data from a spreadsheet, add your boundary file, publish an InstantAtlas stand-alone dynamic flash report and place it on your web site. Typically, this can all be done in less than a day. You do not need any special technical knowledge. You use familiar tools. If you currently have data query, table maker or static mapping systems in place or in development, consider this also as a valuable add-on for integration. InstantAtlas comes with ready-to-use templates that can be customized with the designer and style editors. You only buy the templates that you need to present your data. If you have a large number of indicators to manage you can upgrade to InstantAtlas Server to improve your data management process and deliver data 'live' to dynamic reports. See also http://instantatlas.wordpress.com/.