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Informationen zum Autor Anthony C. Gatrell is Professor of the Geography of Health at Lancaster University. His research interests include applications of spatial analysis and GIS in health and medicine, health inequalities, and associations between mobility and health. He is the author of Distance and Space: A Geographical Perspective (1983), Interactive Spatial Data Analysis (with Trevor Bailey, 1995), GIS and Health (edited with Markku Löytönen, 1998), and Geographies of Health, second edition (Blackwell, 2011). Susan J. Elliott is the Dean of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo, Canada where she is actively involved in research related to integrated knowledge translation in the area of environment and health research. She has published extensively around relationships between health and the built environment, health and the socially constructed environment, and health and the physical environment. Her research activities span the globe, with current activities related to access to safe water and sanitation in Africa. Klappentext Setting out the debates and reviewing the evidence that links health outcomes with social and physical environments, this new edition of the well-established text offers an accessible overview of the theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and research in the field of health geography* Includes international examples, drawn from a broad range of countries, and extensive illustrations* Unique in its approach to health geography, as opposed to medical geography* New chapters focus on contemporary concerns including neighborhoods and health, ageing, and emerging infectious disease* Offers five new case studies and an fresh emphasis on qualitative research approaches* Written by two of the leading health geographers in the world, each with extensive experience in research and policy Zusammenfassung Geographies of Health provides an accessible overview of the theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and research in the field of health geography. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures ixList of Tables xiiPreface xivPart I Describing and Explaining Health in Geographical Settings 1Chapter 1 Introducing Geographies of Health 3Health and Geography: Some Fundamental Concepts 6Concepts of health 7Geographical concepts 10Geographies of Health: Five Case Studies 15Neighborhoods and obesity in New York City 16Public places after the introduction of "smoke free" legislation 18The health of Aboriginal populations in Canada 19Habitus and heart health: The collision of place, body, and health 21Mental health in Australian immigration detention centers 23Concluding Remarks 25Chapter 2 Explaining Geographies of Health 29Positivist Approaches to the Geography of Health 30Positivist explanation 30Further examples of positivist approaches 31Social Interactionist Approaches to the Geography of Health 37Social interactionist explanation 38Further examples of social interactionist approaches 39Structuralist Approaches to the Geography of Health 41Structuralist explanation 42Further examples of structuralist or conflict-based approaches 43Structurationist Approaches to the Geography of Health 50Structurationist explanation 50Further examples of structurationist approaches 52Post-structuralist Approaches to the Geography of Health 53Post-structuralist explanation 54Further examples of post-structuralist approaches 54Concluding Remarks 59Chapter 3 Quantitative Methods and Geographical InformationSystems (GIS) 65Visualizing and Exploring Health Data in a Spatial Context 66Modeling Health Data in a Spatial Setting 78Geographical Information Systems and Health 86Concluding Remarks 96Chapter 4 Qualitative Approaches to Interpreting the Geography of Health 101Interviews 102Focus Groups 110Other Qualitative Methods 112Qua...
