John M Hunter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 91457 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John M Hunter |
| PRENOMES | John M |
| SOBRENOME | Hunter |
| ASSINATURA | HUNTER J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Michigan State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 373 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1953 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
River Blindness Revisited
My hypothesis on onchocerciasis, or river blindness, appeared in the Geographical Review of 1966. It led to an invitation from the World Health Organization in 1972 to revisit the problem area for two months to provide information to assist in the planning of a twenty‐year program of intervention. This article presents unpublished maps selected from my 1972 report. The issues discussed have relevance today regarding international health projects,…
Inherited burden of disease
Pilgrim Networks of the Holy Shrine of Esquipulas, Guatemala
The Shrine of the Black Christ of Esquipulas, Guatemala, attracts over one million pilgrims annually. This research reveals major pilgrim source areas and identifies key variables associated with pilgrim movement to the shrine. Four data sets were obtained by interviewing pilgrims at the shrine. In major pilgrim source areas, religious leaders and transportation agents were visited throughout Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Over 60% of the …
Economic development and women's blood pressure
This study examines the relationship between economic development and women's blood pressure in rural Zimbabwe. Using a sample of 200 women from the Chiweshe district, the research investigates the impact of various socio-economic factors, including education, employment, household assets, and access to resources, on blood pressure levels. The findings suggest a complex interplay between economic development and health outcomes for women in this …
Bore holes and the vanishing of guinea worm disease in Ghana's Upper Region
Geographical patterns of guinea worm infestation in Ghana
An introduction to guinea worm on the eve of its departure
Paradise lost
The tooth as a marker of developing world quality of life
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease
Macroterme Geophagy and Pregnancy Clays in Southern Africa
Field observations in five countries of southern Africa reveal that geophagy among pregnant women is very widespread in rural areas and that a geophagy trade exists in urban markets. Giant mounds built by the termite genus macrotermes are a major source of pregnancy clay. In terms of supplying essential minerals and trace elements to the fetus, in needy circumstances, it is argued that geophagy is pragmatic folk wisdom and environmentally adaptiv…
The Cultural Geography of Health Care
In health delivery and health research, basic concepts of cultural behaviour are frequently ignored - at a high personal and financial cost - because both fields are dominated by technical solutions and quantitative analysis. They have little use for what is often regarded as irrelevant information. In this wide-ranging book, written for students and nonspecialists, Wilbert M. Gesler applies cultural geography to health and shows that throughout …
Elephantiasis
Health and Health Care in the Third World
The community perinatal health care system of urban Cape Town, South Africa—II. Geographical patterns
The community perinatal health care system of urban Cape Town, South Africa—I. Characteristics of mothers and birth outcomes
Bot-Fly Maggot Infestation in Latin America
Infestation by bot-fly larvae is a major obstacle to beef and dairy production in Latin America. It is also a widespread, underreported human health problem. Because of its unique harnessing of transporter insects in egg dispersal, the adult fly is unseen and unknown among the rural people whom it plagues. Traditional methods of maggot removal from humans are being replaced by treatment with highly dangerous pesticides, several of which are banne…
Need and Demand for Mental Health Care
Rings of madness
Field testing along a disease gradient
Insect Clay Geophagy in Sierre Leone
Field study in eastern Sierra Leone shows that 50% of pregnant women regularly consume clay found in the interior of termite mounds. Some 40 to 80 grams of clay are eaten per day. Another, but less commonly used, geophagical source of clay is the nest of the mud daubing wasp. Both clays provide important amounts of minerals and trace elements essential for fetal development. It is concluded that the practice is a cultural response to nutritional …
Urbanization and Cancer Mortality
Hypothesis of leprosy, tuberculosis and urbanization in Africa
Geophagy in Central America
Internal Migration Systems in the Developing World
The summer disease
The Cultural Geography of Health Care
In health delivery and health research, basic concepts of cultural behaviour are frequently ignored - at a high personal and financial cost - because both fields are dominated by technical solutions and quantitative analysis. They have little use for what is often regarded as irrelevant information. In this wide-ranging book, written for students and nonspecialists, Wilbert M. Gesler applies cultural geography to health and shows that throughout …
Geophagy in Africa and in the United States
EOPHAGY, or earth eating, is a nearly universal cross-cultural phenomenon. There is evidence of its various manifestations in the Mediterranean world of Roman and later times, in medieval Western Europe, in present-day Iran, India, China, and, extensively, in the tropical peasant world of Indonesia, Oceania, and Africa.1 Geophagy is a highly diverse phenomenon, reflecting religious belief, cultural practice, psychiatric disorder, pathogenic react…
Seasonal Hunger in a Part of the West African Savanna
BETWEEN THE West African forest and the sub-Saharan steppe lies a broad zone of savanna woodland stretching some 2000 miles from Dakar to Lake Tchad, with an average width of about 500 miles (Fig. I). Seasonally advancing Tm air from the Gulf of Guinea, thrusting wedge-like under the Tc air of Saharan origin, brings rain to the hot continental interior. In the south the rains arrive sooner and last longer, whereas in the north they are delayed an…
River Blindness in Nangodi, Northern Ghana
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease
Geophagy in Central America
Man-made lakes and man-made diseases
Journeys toward Progress
Population Pressure in a Part of the West African Savanna
The hard environmental conditions of the African savanna, particularly during the long dry season, at best allow a small accumulation of foodstuffs beyond normal requirements. Indigenous groups who traditionally rely upon cereal cultivation for their sustenance are often sorely pressed, particularly so when population is increasing. The concept of population carrying-capacity of an indigenous agricultural system is examined in Nangodi, which may …
Inherited burden of disease
Elephantiasis
Rings of madness
The Social Roots of Dispersed Settlement in Northern Ghana
Northern Ghana is characterized by dispersed settlement. The pattern derives basically from a system of fixed cultivation which is rare in tropical areas. The layout of a house reflects family structure; similarly, patterns of land holdings reflect stages in community evolution. Originally circular, home-farms are divided by inheritance into radial strips, diminishing in size over the generations. Settlement dispersal commences with domestic fiss…
Past explosion and future threat
Development and the Problems of Village Nutrition
Diffusion of Influenza in England and Wales
In 1957 a new variant of influenza appeared in China and subsequently swept through a highly susceptible world population in classic pandemic style. England and Wales were infected chiefly through their seaports in June. An epidemic of twelve weeks began in early September, with about six million cases of influenza. Surrogate analysis of spatial components of the epidemic reveals the emergence of primary foci in northern England, followed by a so…
The Clans of Nangodi
Opening ParagraphIn respect of its social organization and settlement pattern, Nangodi State is typical of extensive areas of northern Ghana. Three forms of authority are recognized: politico-military, kinship (or family) and spiritual. Politico-military authority is exercised through ten chiefdoms which are in turn divided into 28 sections. Kinship authority is represented by 64 agnatic lineages 57 of which are hierarchically grouped into seven …
An introduction to guinea worm on the eve of its departure
Paradise lost
The tooth as a marker of developing world quality of life
The summer disease
Bore holes and the vanishing of guinea worm disease in Ghana's Upper Region
Geographical patterns of guinea worm infestation in Ghana
Macroterme Geophagy and Pregnancy Clays in Southern Africa
Field observations in five countries of southern Africa reveal that geophagy among pregnant women is very widespread in rural areas and that a geophagy trade exists in urban markets. Giant mounds built by the termite genus macrotermes are a major source of pregnancy clay. In terms of supplying essential minerals and trace elements to the fetus, in needy circumstances, it is argued that geophagy is pragmatic folk wisdom and environmentally adaptiv…
Long-Term Foreign Investment and Underdeveloped Countries
Reflections on the Administrative Aspects of a Technical Assistance Project
The Teaching of Economics in Colombia
This study was undertaken in June, 1959, because of the personal interest of the authors in Colombian education and because little is known about the present status of education in economics in Colombia. The cooperation of the various deans interviewed was gratifying; also appreciated was the financial and moral assistance of the Fondo Universitario Nacional. Critical evaluation and recommendations are not included herein. Readers may be interest…
Morphology of a Bauxite Summit in Ghana
Soils of the Lower Tano Basin, South-Western Ghana
Emerging Colombia
Journeys toward Progress
A Testing Ground in Colombia
Essay| January 01 1964 A Testing Ground in Colombia John M. Hunter John M. Hunter Advisor, Instituto de Economía y Finanzas,Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina John M. Hunter, now on leave in Argentina, is a Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. While associated with Michigan State he has had overseas assignments in Vietnam, Colombia and Argentina. He has contributed to numerous publications and his most recent book, Emergin…
Colombia
Essay| November 01 1966 Colombia: A Tarnished Showcase John M. Hunter John M. Hunter Professor of Economics, Michigan State University In addition to his duties at Michigan State University, John M. Hunter has served as director of the Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Economico in Bogotá, Colombia (1958–1960) and advisor to the Institute de Investigaciones Economicas in Cordoba, Argentina (1962). He has also served as consultant to American Un…
River Blindness in Nangodi, Northern Ghana
Latin American Integration and the Alliance
Essay| November 01 1967 Latin American Integration and the Alliance John M. Hunter John M. Hunter Professor of Economics, Michigan State University In addition to his duties at Michigan State University, John M. Hunter has served as director of the Centro de Estudios sobre Desanolla Economico in Bogotá, Colombia (1958–1960), and as adviser to the Institute de Investigationes Economicas in Cordoba, Argentina (1962). He has also served as consultan…
Seasonal Hunger in a Part of the West African Savanna
BETWEEN THE West African forest and the sub-Saharan steppe lies a broad zone of savanna woodland stretching some 2000 miles from Dakar to Lake Tchad, with an average width of about 500 miles (Fig. I). Seasonally advancing Tm air from the Gulf of Guinea, thrusting wedge-like under the Tc air of Saharan origin, brings rain to the hot continental interior. In the south the rains arrive sooner and last longer, whereas in the north they are delayed an…
Population Pressure in a Part of the West African Savanna
The hard environmental conditions of the African savanna, particularly during the long dry season, at best allow a small accumulation of foodstuffs beyond normal requirements. Indigenous groups who traditionally rely upon cereal cultivation for their sustenance are often sorely pressed, particularly so when population is increasing. The concept of population carrying-capacity of an indigenous agricultural system is examined in Nangodi, which may …
The Social Roots of Dispersed Settlement in Northern Ghana
Northern Ghana is characterized by dispersed settlement. The pattern derives basically from a system of fixed cultivation which is rare in tropical areas. The layout of a house reflects family structure; similarly, patterns of land holdings reflect stages in community evolution. Originally circular, home-farms are divided by inheritance into radial strips, diminishing in size over the generations. Settlement dispersal commences with domestic fiss…
The Clans of Nangodi
Opening ParagraphIn respect of its social organization and settlement pattern, Nangodi State is typical of extensive areas of northern Ghana. Three forms of authority are recognized: politico-military, kinship (or family) and spiritual. Politico-military authority is exercised through ten chiefdoms which are in turn divided into 28 sections. Kinship authority is represented by 64 agnatic lineages 57 of which are hierarchically grouped into seven …
Rural Geography - A Comment
Rural Geography-A Comment
Several themes recur in the papers contributed to this volume. There are geographers who take the bull by the horns; they have their own view of what constitutes 'rural' geography, and they proceed to what they consider to be the major issues at hand. In so doing they use a variety of approaches aimed at a wide range of goals, and in the process they cite a literature that is similarly diverse. And then there are others, whose first concern is wi…
Diffusion of Influenza in England and Wales
In 1957 a new variant of influenza appeared in China and subsequently swept through a highly susceptible world population in classic pandemic style. England and Wales were infected chiefly through their seaports in June. An epidemic of twelve weeks began in early September, with about six million cases of influenza. Surrogate analysis of spatial components of the epidemic reveals the emergence of primary foci in northern England, followed by a so…
Guidelines to Problems of Education in Brazil
Geophagy in Africa and in the United States
EOPHAGY, or earth eating, is a nearly universal cross-cultural phenomenon. There is evidence of its various manifestations in the Mediterranean world of Roman and later times, in medieval Western Europe, in present-day Iran, India, China, and, extensively, in the tropical peasant world of Indonesia, Oceania, and Africa.1 Geophagy is a highly diverse phenomenon, reflecting religious belief, cultural practice, psychiatric disorder, pathogenic react…
Lumpenbourgeoisie
Lumpenbourgeoisie
Sleeping Sickness in Africa
Colombia RevisitedThe Economic Growth of Colombia
In Memoriam—James R. Hooker
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