Place, Health, and Diversity: Learning from the Canadian Experience

Author:   Melissa D. Giesbrecht ,  Valorie A. Crooks
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   252
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
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Although health equity and diversity-focussed research has begun to gain momentum, there is still a paucity of research from health geographers that explicitly explores how geographic factors, such as place, space, scale, community, and location, inform multiple axes of difference. Such axes can include residential location, age, sex, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, religion, socio-economic status, marital status, sexual orientation, education level, and immigration status. Specifically focussing on Canada’s rapidly changing society, which is becoming increasingly pluralized and diverse, this book examines the place-health-diversity intersection in this national context. Health geographers are well positioned to offer a valuable contribution to diversity-focussed research because place is inextricably linked to differential experiences of health. For example, access to health care and health promoting services and resources is largely influenced by where one is physically and socially situated within the web of diversity. Furthermore, applying geographic concepts like place, in both the physical and social sense, allows researchers to explore multiple axes of difference simultaneously. Such geographic perspectives, as presented in this book, offer new insights into what makes diverse people, in diverse places, with access to diverse resources (un)healthy in different ways in Canada and beyond.

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Author:   Melissa D. Giesbrecht ,  Valorie A. Crooks
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367668327


ISBN 10:   0367668327
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1 Place, Health, and Diversity in Canada Melissa D. Giesbrecht, Valorie A. Crooks, and Jeffrey Morgan 2 Frameworks, Lenses, and Tools: Approaches to Conducting Diversity-Based Health Geography Research Melissa D. Giesbrecht, Valorie A. Crooks, and Jeffrey Morgan 3 From Embedded In Place-to Marginalized Out-and Back Again: Indigenous Peoples’ Experience of Health in Canada Heather Castleden, Debbie Martin, and Diana Lewis 4 Exploring the Intersections Between Violence, Place, and Mental Health in the Lives of Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People in Canada Cindy Holmes 5 ""I’m a Better Person When I’m Working"": Supportive Workplaces, Mental Illness, and Recovery Joshua Evans and Robert Wilton 6 Spaces and Places: Engaging a Mixed-Methods Approach for Exploring the Multiple Geographies of Pedestrian Injury Jonathan Cinnamon and Daniel Z. Sui 7 Counter-Mapping Inner City ""Deprivation"" in Winnipeg, Canada Jeffrey R. Masuda and Emily Skinner 8 When is Helping Hurting? Understanding and Challenging the (Re)Production of Dominance in Narratives of Health, Place, and Difference in Hamilton, Ontario Madelaine C. Cahuas, Mannat Malik, and Sarah Wakefield 9 Constructing the Liberal Health-care Consumer Online: A Content Analysis of Canadian Medical Tourism and Harm Reduction Service Provider Websites Cristina Temenos and Rory Johnston 10 Lived Experience in Context: The Diverse Interplay between Women Living with Fibromyalgia and Canada’s Health Care System Valorie A. Crooks 11 Aging, Gender, and ""Triple Jeopardy"" Through the Life Course Rachel V. Herron and Mark W. Rosenberg 12 Does the Compassionate Care Benefit Adequately Support Vietnamese-Canadian Family Caregivers? A Diversity Analysis Irene D. Lum and Allison H. Williams 13 Conclusion: Ways Ahead in Diversity-Based Health Geography Research Valorie A. Crooks and Melissa D. Giesbrecht"

Reviews

'We live in an increasingly diverse and complex world where culture, tolerance, acceptance and difference run alongside disempowerment, intolerance, social and spatial inequity. If you want to understand how these axes of difference intersect with place, health and healthcare then read this thought-provoking edited volume. Though geographically anchored in the highly diverse Canadian landscape, the carefully crafted case studies and theoretical insights illustrate the importance of taking a diversity-focused approach to health geography that goes well beyond the Canadian context.' Christine Milligan, Lancaster University, UK 'Although there has been much research published in health geography on diverse and often marginalized groups, overall the body of work has been produced sporadically and has lacked cohesion around the overarching theme of diversity. This excellent publication addresses this by bringing together a wealth of Canada-focused research in a single venue. A must read for a wide-range of scholars and students in the sub-discipline, the book is easily digested yet is both empirically detailed and theoretically insightful.' Gavin Andrews, McMaster University, Canada


’We live in an increasingly diverse and complex world where culture, tolerance, acceptance and difference run alongside disempowerment, intolerance, social and spatial inequity. If you want to understand how these axes of difference intersect with place, health and healthcare then read this thought-provoking edited volume. Though geographically anchored in the highly diverse Canadian landscape, the carefully crafted case studies and theoretical insights illustrate the importance of taking a diversity-focused approach to health geography that goes well beyond the Canadian context.’ Christine Milligan, Lancaster University, UK ’Although there has been much research published in health geography on diverse and often marginalized groups, overall the body of work has been produced sporadically and has lacked cohesion around the overarching theme of diversity. This excellent publication addresses this by bringing together a wealth of Canada-focused research in a single venue. A must read for a wide-range of scholars and students in the sub-discipline, the book is easily digested yet is both empirically detailed and theoretically insightful.’ Gavin Andrews, McMaster University, Canada


'We live in an increasingly diverse and complex world where culture, tolerance, acceptance and difference run alongside disempowerment, intolerance, social and spatial inequity. If you want to understand how these axes of difference intersect with place, health and healthcare then read this thought-provoking edited volume. Though geographically anchored in the highly diverse Canadian landscape, the carefully crafted case studies and theoretical insights illustrate the importance of taking a diversity-focused approach to health geography that goes well beyond the Canadian context.' Christine Milligan, Lancaster University, UK 'Although there has been much research published in health geography on diverse and often marginalized groups, overall the body of work has been produced sporadically and has lacked cohesion around the overarching theme of diversity . This excellent publication addresses this by bringing together a wealth of Canada-focused research in a single venue. A must read for a wide-range of scholars and students in the sub-discipline, the book is easily digested yet is both empirically detailed and theoretically insightful.' Gavin Andrews, McMaster University, Canada


Author Information

Melissa D. Giesbrecht is Research Associate at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Valorie A. Crooks is a health geographer and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

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