Course Form for WHU Summer School International 2025
Course Title | （英 文）Health Geography |
（中 文）健康地理学 |
Teacher | Peng Jia Jaime Hart Chun Yin Yuanyuan Shi |
First day of classes | 2025.7.14 |
Last day of classes | 2025.7.18 |
Course Credit | 1 |
Course Description |
Course Introduction |
Health geography is the study of the distribution, diffusion, determinants, and delivery associated with health and health systems in human populations.
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Objective |
This course aims at presenting the fundamental and key concepts and principles of health geography, as well as its most important branch – spatial epidemiology. Students will learn the applications of spatial, digital, statistical, and big data methods in public health research, in particular using these multi-disciplinary methods to address environmental health issues. Students’ critical thinking, English communication and writing skills will also be strengthened through in-class discussion and written assessments.
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Assignments (essay or other forms) |
Lab assignments Short essay Group project report |
Text Books and Reading Materials |
贾鹏 (2025) 《健康地理学》，高等教育出版社 Jia, P. (2019). Spatial lifecourse epidemiology. The Lancet Planetary Health, 3(2), e57-e59. Jia, P., Lakerveld, J., Wu, J., et al. (2019). Top 10 research priorities in spatial lifecourse epidemiology. Environmental health perspectives, 127(7), 074501. Jia, P., Xue, H., Yin, L., Stein, A., Wang, M., & Wang, Y. (2019). Spatial technologies in obesity research: current applications and future promise. Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 30(3), 211-223. Jia, P., Xue, H., Cheng, X., & Wang, Y. (2019). Effects of school neighborhood food environments on childhood obesity at multiple scales: a longitudinal kindergarten cohort study in the USA. BMC medicine, 17(1), 1-15. Jia, P., Stein, A., James, P., et al. (2019). Earth observation: investigating noncommunicable diseases from space. Annual review of public health, 40, 85-104. Jia, P., Cheng, X., Xue, H., & Wang, Y. (2017). Applications of geographic information systems (GIS) data and methods in obesity‐related research. Obesity reviews, 18(4), 400-411. |
The Outline of《Health Geography》
1. Basic Teaching Information
Course Code：3350350013137 | Course Title：Health Geography |
Faculty：School of Resource and Environmental Sciences | Targeted Student：Graduate and undergraduate students |
Course Credit：1 | Lecture Hours：20 （consisted of 12 theoretical hours and 8 practical hours） |
Course Leader： | Name：Peng Jia | E-mail：jiapeng@whu.edu.cn |
Office：电脑城316 | Mobile： |
Course Staff： | Name：Yuanyuan Shi | E-mail：yuanyuan.shi@whu.edu.cn |
Office：电脑城323 | Mobile： |
Course Type：专业选修课程Optional Specialty Course |
Related Preview Courses：GIS |
2. Course Introduction（no more than 500 words）
Health geography is the study of the distribution, diffusion, determinants, and delivery associated with health and health systems in human populations. This course aims at presenting the fundamental and key concepts and principles of health geography, as well as its most important branch – spatial epidemiology. Students will learn the applications of spatial, digital, statistical, and big data methods in public health research, in particular using these multi-disciplinary methods to address environmental health issues. Students’ critical thinking, English communication and writing skills will also be strengthened through in-class discussion and written assessments. Teaching and learning will be mainly conducted through lectures and labs. Some hours will be used for interactive discussion in the group project, with a written report to be produced for assessment. Upon completing this course, students will be able to grasp a basic but solid understanding of health geography including the use of the basic and common methods in public health research, which will serve as an important basis for further advanced health geography research in their later stages of studies.
3. The Allocation of Content and Lecture Hours
Content | Lecture Hours |
Introduction of health geography | 2 |
Spatial technology in health geography | 2 |
Artificial intelligence in health geography | 2 |
Complex modeling in health geography | 2 |
Common statistics in health geography | 4 |
Case studies of disease risk factors | 2 |
Case studies of chronic diseases | 2 |
Case studies of healthcare service delivery | 3 |
Group project wrapping-up | 1 |
4. Assessment Methods and Marking Criterion
Attendance (10%)
Research proposal (60%)
Short essay (30%)
5. Textbooks and References
贾鹏 (2025) 《健康地理学》，高等教育出版社
Jia, P. (2019). Spatial lifecourse epidemiology. The Lancet Planetary Health, 3(2), e57-e59.
Jia, P., Lakerveld, J., Wu, J., et al. (2019). Top 10 research priorities in spatial lifecourse epidemiology. Environmental health perspectives, 127(7), 074501.
Jia, P., Xue, H., Yin, L., Stein, A., Wang, M., & Wang, Y. (2019). Spatial technologies in obesity research: current applications and future promise. Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 30(3), 211-223.
Jia, P., Xue, H., Cheng, X., & Wang, Y. (2019). Effects of school neighborhood food environments on childhood obesity at multiple scales: a longitudinal kindergarten cohort study in the USA. BMC medicine, 17(1), 1-15.
Jia, P., Stein, A., James, P., et al. (2019). Earth observation: investigating noncommunicable diseases from space. Annual review of public health, 40, 85-104.
Jia, P., Cheng, X., Xue, H., & Wang, Y. (2017). Applications of geographic information systems (GIS) data and methods in obesity‐related research. Obesity reviews, 18(4), 400-411.
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