Place and the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health / edited by Marynia A. Kolak, Imelda K. Moise.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolak, Marynia A.

Series:

Global Perspectives on Health Geography, 2522-8013

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography.

Public health.

Geographic information systems.

Social medicine.

Public Health.

Geographical Information System.

Medical Sociology.

Local Subjects:

Geography.

Public Health.

Geographical Information System.

Medical Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2026.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2026.

Summary:

This open access contributed volume is the first to address Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) from a place-based perspective with a transdisciplinary, global outlook. In this open access book, experts from geography, public health, urban planning, sociology, architecture, and more respond to growing calls for action on SDoH to improve health outcomes and promote health equity. Through theoretical considerations and case studies, the book explores how a spatial perspective influences, expands, and enriches understanding of SDoH across different scales and applications. Failing to account for patterns of structural health factors using an explicitly spatial approach can lead to biased, misinterpreted, or incomplete analyses. Adopting a geographic, place-based perspective remains crucial for SDoH studies from theoretical, analytical, and technological standpoints. The chapters in this book highlight areas needing further attention, such as spatial mismatch in health services, the complexities of social and spatial networks, and the impact of government policies on health disparities. Guided by SDoH frameworks, the book is divided into the sections on conceptualizing Social-Spatial Determinants of Health (S&SDoH), integrating S&SDoH in practice, methodological approaches and techniques for measuring S&SDoH, and empirical illustrations of S&SDoH.

Contents:

1 Introducing the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health

2 Re-Rooting the Social Determinants of Health Within a Trauma-Informed, Integrated Health Geography

3 Defining the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health Through Transformative Critical Praxis

4 Residual Effects of Historical Place-Based Discrimination on Health

5 Resources for Health Within Latinx Communities

6 Toward a Transdisciplinary Theory of Access

7 Operationalization of Social-Spatial Determinants of Health

8 Spatial Practices that Reshape the Social Determinants of Health for Families with Young Children Affected by Disadvantage

9 Design Guidelines for Safe Environment to Improve Aging in Place

10 Socially Assistive Technologies for Older Adults in Their Residential Environment

11 Teaching and Learning About Geo-Social Determinants of Health

12 When to Use What

13 Gentrification and Health

14 Relative Time and Social-Spatial Determinants of Health

15 A Social-Spatial Network Approach to Characterize Social Determinants of Health in Syndemics Research Within an Intersectionality Framework

16 Making Space

17 Applications of GIS to Spatial Patterns of Disease and Health

18 Understanding Malaria Transmission and Control Within and Between Regions in Zambia Using a Socio-Spatial Determinants of Health Framework

19 The Interstate Highway System as a Tool of Segregation and the Subsequent Impact on Community Health.

ISBN:

3-031-88463-9