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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 ix List of Tables xii Preface xiv Part I Describing and Explaining Health in Geographical Settings 1 Chapter 1 Introducing Geographies of Health 3 Health and Geography: Some Fundamental Concepts 6 Concepts of health 7 Geographical concepts 10 Geographies of Health: Five Case Studies 15 Neighborhoods and obesity in New York City 16 Public places after the introduction of "smoke free" legislation 18 The health of Aboriginal populations in Canada 19 Habitus and heart health: The collision of place, body, and health 21 Mental health in Australian immigration detention centers 23 Concluding Remarks 25 Chapter 2 Explaining Geographies of Health 29 Positivist Approaches to the Geography of Health 30 Positivist explanation 30 Further examples of positivist approaches 31 Social Interactionist Approaches to the Geography of Health 37 Social interactionist explanation 38 Further examples of social interactionist approaches 39 Structuralist Approaches to the Geography of Health 41 Structuralist explanation 42 Further examples of structuralist or conflict-based approaches 43 Structurationist Approaches to the Geography of Health 50 Structurationist explanation 50 Further examples of structurationist approaches 52 Post-structuralist Approaches to the Geography of Health 53 Post-structuralist explanation 54 Further examples of post-structuralist approaches 54 Concluding Remarks 59 Chapter 3 Quantitative Methods and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) 65 Visualizing and Exploring Health Data in a Spatial Context 66 Modeling Health Data in a Spatial Setting 7...
