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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... economic position (Curtis and Lawson, 2000) Political ecology perspective on the factors influencing health of refugees (after Kalipeni and Oppong, 1998; Wood, 1994) Key relationships in landscapes of power and health inequalities ...
... social model of health sees the health of an individual person as the outcome of a range of socio-economic and political determinants, as well as medical care (e.g. Whitehead, 1995). Commentators such as Dubos GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES 3.
... economic development, are more significant in determining whether or not people become ill. This perspective places strong emphasis on an understanding of the social and physical environmental factors influencing health. The geography ...
... economic variation has often been construed in terms of class divisions in the distribution of wealth. Beck argued that the idea of the 'class society' is now reinterpreted in terms of the 'risk society', in which hazards are unevenly ...
... economic criteria, but also in terms of how well the risk is understood and whether exposure to the risk is unequal for different populations. Box 1.1, for example, illustrates statistical probabilities of death, for the average ...
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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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