Routledge handbook of health geography / edited by Valorie A. Crooks, Gavin J. Andrews and Jamie Pearce.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Crooks, Valorie A., 1976- editor.

Andrews, Gavin J., 1970- editor.

Pearce, Jamie, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical geography.

Geography, Medical.

Medical Subjects:

Geography, Medical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 386 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Introducing the Routledge Handbook of Health Geography; Section 1 Perspectives and debates; 2 Introducing Section 1: perspectives and debates; 3 Global health geographies; 4 Development: the past, present and future contributions of health geography; 5 Placing health inequalities: where you live can kill you; 6 Environmental health inequities: from global to local contexts; 7 Infectious-disease geography: disease outbreaks and outcomes through the lens of space and place; 8 Risk and resilience; 9 Researching migration and health: perspectives and debates; 10 Food in health geography; 11 Un/healthy behavior: a bibliometric assessment of geographers' contributions to understanding the association between environment and health-related behavior;

Section 2 Theories and concepts; 12 Introducing Section 2: theories and concepts; 13 Environments of health and care: the contributions of political economy; 14 Humanism and health geography: placing the human in health geography; 15 Social constructivism (in a socially constructed health geography?); 16 Health geography's role in understanding social capital and its influence on health; 17 Therapeutic landscapes: from exceptional sites of healing to everyday assemblages of well-being; 18 Well-being in health geography: conceptualizations, contributions and questions; 19 Decentering geographies of health: the challenge of post-structuralism; 20 After posthumanism: health geographies of networks and assemblages; 21 Non-representational geographies of health;

Section 3 Groups and peoples; 22 Introducing Section 3: groups and peoples; 23 The medicalization of homelessness; 24 Informal caregivers: people, place and identity; 25 Mapping life on the margins: disability and chronic illness; 26 The geographies of Indigenous health; 27 From inequities to place attachment and the provision of health care: key concerns in the health geographies of aging; 28 Including children in health geography; 29 Immigrant health: insights and implications; 30 Establishing geographies of LGBTQ health; 31 "This place is getting to me": geographical understandings of mental health;

Section 4 Places and spaces; 32 Introducing Section 4: places and spaces; 33 Home truths? A critical reflection on aging, care and the home; 34 Rethinking care through transnational health and long-term care practices; 35 The place of primary care clinics; 36 Palettes of place: green/blue spaces and health; 37 Urban public spaces, social inclusion and health; 38 Rural places and spaces of health and health care; 39 Transportation and health geographies; 40 mHealth geographies: mobile technologies and health in the Global South; 41 Walkability and physical activity;

Section 5 Practicing health geographies; 42 Introducing Section 5: practicing health geographies; 43 Qualitative health geography reaches the mainstream; 44 Health geographies of art, music and sound: the remaking of self in place; 45 Health geography and the future of data; 46 Health geography and the big data revolution; 47 Navigating research ethics in health geography: the case of big data; 48 Spatial modeling's place in health geography: trends, critiques and future directions; 49 Difference matters: approaches for acknowledging diversity in health geography research; 50 Practicing health geography in public health: a focus on population-health-intervention research; 51 Intervention research from a place-based perspective; 52 Practitioner perspectives: the case of nursing geographies.

Notes:

Include bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Routledge handbook of health geography.

ISBN:

9781315104584

131510458X

Publisher Number:

99977359870

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.