Geographies of Health: An Introduction - Tapa blanda

Gatrell, Anthony C.; Elliott, Susan J.

 
9780470672877: Geographies of Health: An Introduction
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ISBN 10: 0470672870 ISBN 13: 9780470672877
Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Sinopsis

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

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Acerca del 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.

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Editorial
Wiley-Blackwell
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0470672870
ISBN 13 
9780470672877
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
3
Número de páginas
426
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