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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... Organization, 1990 (PAHO, 1999) Proportion of practices offering health promotion clinics in Bedfordshire, UK (data from Gillam, 1992: Table 2) Geographies of consumption and health inequality The triangle of human disease ecology ...
... Organization of access to ambulatory general medical services : differences between national health systems in Britain , France and the USA 137 Box 6.1 Modern approaches to epidemiological landscapes : using GIS methods to estimate ...
... Organization (WHO). For example, the World Health Report presents information on mortality and disability, around 1999, in the population of groups of member states, classified by region and by relative levels of child and adult ...
... organizational change and participation in the public health arena because it emphasizes the need to view the factors influencing population health as complex systems. This focuses attention on the connections between the different ...
... organizations . . . In trying to tackle them the tendency is to break them into actionable parts. Yet many of these problems refuse to go away . . . it might be more fruitful to think of them as issues for an interconnected system to ...
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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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