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9780631219859

Geographies of Health

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631219859

  • ISBN10:

    0631219854

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-12-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This text shows how health may be studied from geographical perspectives and reviews a wide range of studies linking health outcomes with social and physical environments. The structure of the book is designed to guide the reader through the relevant theoretical perspectives, methodologies and research. Shows how health may be studied from geographical perspectives and reviews a wide range of studies linking health outcomes with social and physical environments. Designed to guide the reader through the relevant theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and research. Supported by current examples of research in a range of geographical settings. Pedagogical features include text boxes, directed further reading at the end of each chapter, a comprehensive bibliography and a guide to useful Internet resources.

Author Biography


Anthony C. Gatrell is a geographer by background and training, whose undergraduate and postgraduate career prepared him for early reserach in quantitative geography, spatial analysis, and Geographical Information Systems. His interest in applying this knowledge to problems of disease distribution turned him into a "medical geographer, " though more recent interests in broader health research have seen him transformed into a "health geographer." Presently, he is Professor of the Geography of Health at Lancaster University (where he has worked since 1984), and the Director of the Institute for Health Research

Table of Contents

List of Figures
vii
List of Tables
x
Preface xii
Part I Describing and Explaining Health in Geographical Settings 1(88)
Introducing Geographies of Health
3(22)
Health and geography: some fundamental concepts
4(9)
Geographies of health: five case studies
13(10)
Concluding remarks
23(1)
Further reading
23(2)
Explaining Geographies of Health
25(25)
Positivist approaches to the geography of health
25(6)
Social interactionist approaches to the geography of health
31(4)
Structuralist approaches to the geography of health
35(6)
Structurationist approaches to the geography of health
41(3)
Post-structuralist approaches to the geography of health
44(4)
Concluding remarks
48(1)
Further reading
48(2)
Method and Technique in the Geography of Health
50(39)
``Mapping'' the geography of health: quantitative approaches
50(28)
Interpreting the geography of health: qualitative approaches
78(9)
Concluding remarks
87(1)
Further reading
87(2)
Part II Health and the Social Environment 89(104)
Inequalities in Health Outcomes
91(44)
Patterns of inequality
92(17)
Explaining inequalities in health outcomes
109(24)
Concluding remarks
133(1)
Further reading
133(2)
Inequalities in the Provision and Utilization of Health Services
135(31)
Issues in the delivery of health services
136(5)
Inequalities in the provision of health services
141(13)
Utilization of services
154(7)
Does provision affect outcome?
161(3)
Concluding remarks
164(1)
Further reading
165(1)
People on the Move: Migration and Health
166(27)
Impact of migration on health
167(18)
Impact of health status on migration
185(4)
The relationship between migration and the delivery of health services
189(1)
Concluding remarks
190(1)
Further reading
191(2)
Part III Health and Human Modification of the Environment 193(63)
Air Quality and Health
195(20)
Types of pollutants
196(2)
Area sources
198(6)
Linear sources
204(3)
Point sources
207(6)
Concluding remarks
213(1)
Further reading
214(1)
Water Quality and Health
215(19)
Waterborne diseases
215(7)
Chemical contamination of drinking water
222(5)
Other forms of contamination
227(5)
Concluding remarks
232(1)
Further reading
232(2)
Health Impacts of Global Environmental Change
234(22)
Stratospheric ozone depletion
234(9)
Global climate change
243(9)
Health effects of other global change
252(2)
Concluding remarks
254(1)
Further reading
255(1)
Appendix: Web-Based Resources for the Geographies of Health 256(7)
References 263(23)
Index 286

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