Studies in Medical Geography @ NTNU
Course Content

As the development of air transportation, people are suffered from infectious disease much severe than ever. But how can we help the global public health system from a geographic approach? In the undergraduate courses, you have already understood various spatial analysis methods; however, you seldom apply these methods into your projects or dissertations. Here, we will use three examples to demonstrate the spatiotemporal disease transmission and the applications of spatial analysis in the clinical medicine.

Course Intro

01 :: Course Introduction

Contents: (1) Course intro (2) Grading policy (3) Why do you need to take this course? (4) What will you learn from this course?

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Introduction to Medical Geography

02 :: Introduction to Medical Geography

Contents: (1) Beginning (2) The concepts of medical geography (3) Objective of medical geography (4) Disease ecology (5) basic models (6) Diffusion models (7) spatial techniques (8) Risk factors

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Contagious Disease

03 :: Contagious Disease

Content: (1) Disease outbreaks, endemics, epidemicsand pandemics (2) From Infectious Diseaseto Contagious Disease (3) Contagious Disease (4) Spatial Approaches on Infectious Diseases (5) Case 1: Notifiable Respiratory Infectious Disease (6) Case 2: SARS & H1N1 (7) Case 3: COVID-19

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Hippocratic Oath

04 :: Hippocratic Oath

Content: (1) Όρκος του Ιπποκράτη (2) Discussion about Όρκος του Ιπποκράτ (3) Lithotomy (4) Some legends about Όρκος του Ιπποκράτη

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Python: Installation

05 :: Python Programming (I)

Content: (1) COVID-19 Database (2) Python Installation (3) Git Installation

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Python: Preprocessing & Visualization

06 :: Python Programming (II)

Content: (1) Read File (2) Data Preprocessing (3) Data Visualization

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Emergency Medical Service

07 :: Emergency Medical Service

Content: (1) EMS Definition (2) EMS History (3) CPR (4) EMS Dispatch

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EMS Resource Allocation

08 :: EMS Resource Allocation

Content: (1) EMS Dispatch Dilemma (2) Medical Resource Allocation (3) Ambulance Dispatch

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Osteoporosis

09 :: Osteoporosis

Content: (1) BoneStructure (2) Osteoporosis (3) Bone Metabolism (4) Osteoporosis Treatment (5) Compression Fractures (6) Osteoporosis Location (7) The Characteristics of Osteoporosis(8) Where is Trabecular Bone and Why it is Important (9) Trabecular Imaging Techniques (10) Quantitative Trabecular Microarchitecture Analysis (11) Current Issues and Dilemma in Clinical Practice (12) Remarks (13) Spatial Perspective Discussion

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