Health and Inequality: Geographical PerspectivesSAGE, 30/12/2003 - 344 من الصفحات `At last! A tour de force on cities and health by someone who knows that geography matters. This is a groundbreaking text, preoccupied as much with health and well-being as with death, disease and despair. It is concerned with who wins and who loses from the social and spatial patterning of risk... Combining breadth of coverage with depth of analysis, Health and Inequality provides an intricate map of harmful spaces and healing places, together with some guidelines on how to get from one to the other′ - Professor Susan Smith, Ogilvie Professor of Geography, University of Edinburgh ′Too often as health professionals we remain embedded in nursing and medical literature neglecting the opportunities offered through engaging with other bodies of knowledge. Such an opportunity presents itself in this book which draws on work undertaken by geographers that can help us in our thinking about health inequalities. The strength of this work lies in its aim to ensure that place and space are recognised as significant factors in health inequalities′ - Community Practitioner Health and Inequality presents a comprehensive analysis of how geographical perspectives can be used to understand the problems of health inequalities. The text has three principal themes: to discuss the geography of health inequality and to examine strategies for reducing disadvantage; to review and develop the theoretical basis for a geographical analysis of these problems - the discussion will illustrate how theoretical developments can help in the design and evaluation of intervention; and to explain how different methodologies in the geography of health, both quantitative and qualitative, can be applied in research - demonstrating the complementarity between them. By relating theoretical arguments to specific landscapes, Health and Inequality will be a key resource for understanding the articulation between theory and empirical methods for understanding health variation in urban areas. |
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... Gesler, University of North Carolina; Professor Victor Rodwin, New York University; Dr Mary Shaw, University of Bristol; Dr Glenn Smith, Royal Free Hospital Medical School; Professor Susan Smith, University of Edinburgh; and François ...
... Gesler and Ricketts (1992), Verheij (1996) and Higgs (1999) have compiled overviews of factors which influence health outcomes in rural areas of high income countries. The health disadvantage of rural populations in low income countries ...
... Gesler, 1993; Kearns, 1994) also frequently invoke work in geography by Eyles (1985), Jackson (1989), Harvey (1989a), Cosgrove and Jackson (1987) and Massey (1991) who extended the application of social and cultural theory in human ...
... Gesler (1992; 1993), Kearns and Gesler (1998) and Williams (1999a). Some places have attributes making them beneficial to psychological and physical health. Other places have quite the opposite characteristics and may therefore be ...
... Gesler, 1998: 8) Gesler (1998) considered the city of Bath in south-west England. This place has a long-established reputation as a healing place, arising from its hot springs. Its role as a healing place was most prominent at certain ...
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4 Landscapes of Poverty and Wealth | 84 |
care and commodification | 113 |
populations air water and ground | 151 |
Aspects of health in urban settings | 191 |
7 The Geography of Mental Health in Cities | 192 |
the example of tuberculosis | 226 |
9 Health Geography in Strategies to Improve Public Health | 250 |
References | 285 |
Index | 323 |
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