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Geographies of Health Series: Geographies of Health Series


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There is growing interest in the geographies of health and a continued interest in what has more traditionally been labeled medical geography. The traditional focus of ’medical geography’ on areas such as disease ecology, health service provision and disease mapping (all of which continue to reflect a mainly quantitative approach to inquiry) has evolved to a focus on a broader, theoretically informed epistemology of health geographies in an expanded international reach. As a result, we now find this subdiscipline characterized by a strongly theoretically-informed research agenda, embracing a range of methods (quantitative; qualitative and the integration of the two) of inquiry concerned with questions of: risk; representation and meaning; inequality and power; culture and difference, among others. Health mapping and modeling, has simultaneously been strengthened by the technical advances made in multilevel modeling, advanced spatial analytic methods and GIS, while further engaging in questions related to health inequalities, population health and environmental degradation. This series publishes superior quality research monographs and edited collections representing contemporary applications in the field; this encompasses original research as well as advances in methods, techniques and theories. The Geographies of Health series will capture the interest of a broad body of scholars, within the social sciences, the health sciences and beyond.

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Anxious Geographies Worlds of Social Anxiety

Anxious Geographies: Worlds of Social Anxiety

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Louise E. Boyle
June 03, 2024

Anxious Geographies offers a unique perspective on social anxiety, framing it as both a social and spatial phenomenon. Through a meticulous exploration using online questionnaires and interviews, the book provides a crucial examination of the intricacies of anxious lives. This book presents a ...

Equity in Global Health Research

Equity in Global Health Research

1st Edition

Edited By Elijah Bisung, Katrina Plamondon
November 24, 2023

This thoughtful book offers unique insights on global health research, drawing attention to the equity choices embedded in day-to-day patterns and assumptions that shape how people do, think about, and navigate research. It invites readers to position equity as the driving principle and purpose of ...

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes Gardening for Prevention, Restoration, and Equity

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes: Gardening for Prevention, Restoration, and Equity

1st Edition

Edited By Pauline Marsh, Allison Williams
August 17, 2023

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing. In this book we explore the ways in which gardens and gardening prevent illness and restore wellbeing, and how they improve social and health equity via ...

Geography, Health and Sustainability Gender Matters Globally

Geography, Health and Sustainability: Gender Matters Globally

1st Edition

Edited By Allison Williams, Isaac Luginaah
May 31, 2023

With a global commitment to achieve gender equality by 2030, the SDGs present a historic opportunity to place gender as central to human progress across the globe. Gender equality, which requires the empowerment of all women and girls, is an explicit goal, in addition to being a fundamental ...

Children's Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments

Children's Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments

1st Edition

Edited By Christina R. Ergler, Robin Kearns, Karen Witten
March 31, 2021

How children experience, negotiate and connect with or resist their surroundings impacts on their health and wellbeing. In cities, various aspects of the physical and social environment can affect children’s wellbeing. This edited collection brings together different accounts and experiences ...

Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing Hydrophilia Unbounded

Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing: Hydrophilia Unbounded

1st Edition

Edited By Ronan Foley, Robin Kearns, Thomas Kistemann, Ben Wheeler
February 11, 2019

Health geography makes critical contributions to contemporary and emerging interdisciplinary agendas of nature-based health and health-enabling places. Couched in theory and critical empirical work on nature and health, this book addresses questions on the relationships between water, health and ...

Public Health, Disease and Development in Africa

Public Health, Disease and Development in Africa

1st Edition

Edited By Ezekiel Kalipeni, Juliet Iwelunmor, Diana S. Grigsby-Toussaint, Imelda K. Moise
July 06, 2018

The closure of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 prompted the need for a book of this kind. An interdisciplinary group of global health scholars contribute to the understanding of the emerging and fast-growing problem of the dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases (...

Geographies of Plague Pandemics The Spatial-Temporal Behavior of Plague to the Modern Day

Geographies of Plague Pandemics: The Spatial-Temporal Behavior of Plague to the Modern Day

1st Edition

By Mark Welford
March 13, 2018

Geographies of Plague Pandemics synthesizes our current understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plague, Yersinia pestis. The environmental, political, economic, and social impacts of the plague from Ancient Greece to the modern day are examined. Chapters explore the identity of plague...

Non-Representational Theory & Health The Health in Life in Space-Time Revealing

Non-Representational Theory & Health: The Health in Life in Space-Time Revealing

1st Edition

By Gavin J. Andrews
February 22, 2018

Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its taking-place. It shows how material, sensory and affective processes combine with conscious thought and agency in the making of everyday life. This book offers an agenda for health geography, providing the ...

Geographies of Health and Development

Geographies of Health and Development

1st Edition

Edited By Rachel Bezner Kerr, Isaac Luginaah
February 06, 2018

The geographies of health and development is an emerging sub-discipline, tying in with many of the conceptual, theoretical and practical components of other disciplines working in health, health care, economics, and international development. Spatially and theoretically grounded in geography, this ...

Spatial Analysis in Health Geography

Spatial Analysis in Health Geography

1st Edition

By Pavlos Kanaroglou, Eric Delmelle
February 05, 2018

Presenting current research on spatial epidemiology, this book covers topics such as exposure, chronic disease, infectious disease, accessibility to health care settings and new methods in Geographical Information Science and Systems. For epidemiologists, and for the management and administration ...

Therapeutic Landscapes

Therapeutic Landscapes

1st Edition

Edited By Allison Williams
December 28, 2007

The therapeutic landscape concept, first introduced early in the 1990s, has been widely employed in health/medical geography and gaining momentum in various health-related disciplines. This is the first book published in several years, and provides an introduction to the concept and its ...

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