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Author:   Valorie A. Crooks ,  Gavin J. Andrews ,  Jamie Pearce
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.000kg
ISBN:  

9781138098046

ISBN 10:   1138098043
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   11 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"1. Introducing the Routledge Handbook of Health Geography Valorie A. Crooks et al 2. Introducing Section One: Perspectives and Debates Jamie Pearce, Valorie A. Crooks and Gavin J. Andrews 3. Global Health Geographies Tim Brown and Stephen Taylor 4. Development: The Past, Present and Future Contributions from Health Geography Elijah Bisung, Jenna Dixon and Isaac Luginaah 5. Placing Health Inequalities: where you live can kill you Clare Bambra 6. Environmental Health Inequities: From Global to Local Contexts Eric Crighton, Holly Gordon and Caroline Barakat-Haddad 7. Infectious disease geography: Disease outbreaks and outcomes through the lens of space and place Corinna Keeler and Michael Emch 8. Risk and Resilience Sarah Curtis and Katie J. Oven 9. Researching Migration and Health: Perspectives and Debates Frances Darlington-Pollock et al 10. Food in Health Geography Sarah Wakefield 11. Un/Healthy behavior: a bibliometric assessment of geographers’ contributions to understanding the association between environment and health-related behaviour Graham Moon and Dianna Smith 12. Introducing Section Two: Theories and Concepts Gavin J. Andrews, Valorie A. Crooks and Jamie Pearce 13. Environments of Health and Care: The Contributions of Political Economy Neil Hanlon 14. Humanism and Health Geography Benet Reid and Matt Sothern 15. Social Constructivism (in a socially constructed health geography?) Sebastien Fleuret 16. Health geography’s role in understanding social capital and its influence on health Amber L. Pearson and Richard C. Sadler 17. Therapeutic Landscapes: From Exceptional Sites of Healing to Everyday Assemblages of Well-being Jessica M. Finlay 18. Well-being in Health Geography: Conceptualizations, Contributions, and Questions Meryn Severson and Damian Collins 19. Decentering Geographies of Health: The Challenge of Post-Structuralism Joshua Evans 20. Posthuman Health Geographies Cameron Duff 21. Non-representational geographies of health Jennifer Lea 22. Introducing Section Three: Groups and People Jamie Pearce, Valorie A. Crooks and Gavin J. Andrews 23. The Medicalization of Homelessness Tom Baker 24. Informal Caregivers: People, Place and Identity Andrew Power 25. Mapping Life on the Margins: Disability and Chronic Illness Vera Chouinard 26. The Geographies of Indigenous health Chantelle A.M. Richmond and Katie Big-Canoe 27. Health Geographies of Aging Tara Colman and Janine Wiles 28. Including Children in Health Geography Nicole Yantzi 29. Immigrant Health: Insights and Implications K. Bruce Newbold 30. Establishing Geographies of LGBTQ Health Nathaniel M. Lewis 31. ""This Place Is Getting to Me"": Geographical Understandings of Mental Health Liz Twigg and Craig Duncan 32. Introducing Section Four: Places and Spaces Valorie A. Crooks, Gavin J. Andrews and Jamie Pearce 33. Home truths? A critical reflection on aging, care and the home Christine Milligan 34. Rethinking Care Through Transnational Health and Long-Term Care Practices Meghann Ormond and Mika Toyota 35. The Place of Primary Care Clinics Robin Kearns 36. Palettes of Place: Green/Blue Spaces and Health Ronan Foley 37. Urban public spaces, social inclusion and health Karen Witten and Vivienne Ivory 38. Rural Places and Spaces of Health and Health Care Rachel Herron and Mark Skinner 39. Transportation and Health Geographies Michael J. Widener 40. mHealth Geographies: Mobile Technologies and Health in the Global South Jonathan Cinnamon and Charlene Ronquillo 41. Walkability and Physical Activity Jana A. Hirsch and Meghan Winters 42. Introducing Section Five: Practicing Health Geography Gavin J. Andrews, Valorie A. Crooks and Jamie Pearce 43. Qualitative Health Geography Reaches the Mainstream Jamie Baxter 44. Health geographies of art, music, and sound: The re-making of self in place Candice P. Boyd and Michelle Duffy 45. Health Geography and the Future of Data Daniel Lewis 46. Understanding the contribution of the ‘big data revolution’ for Health Geography Alec Davies and Mark A. Green 47. Navigating Research Ethics in Health Geography: The Case of Big Data Nina J. Morris 48. Spatial Modeling’s Place in Health Geography: Trends, Critiques, and Future Directions Sara McLafferty and Sandy Wong 49. Difference matters: Approaches for acknowledging diversity in health geography research Melissa Giesbrecht 50. Practising Health Geography in Public Health: A Focus on Population Health Intervention Research Mylene Riva and Sarah M. Mah 51. Intervention Research from a Place-based Approach Allison M. Williams 52. Practitioner perspectives: the case of nursing geographies Elizabeth Peter and Joan Liaschenko"

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Valorie A. Crooks is a professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University, in Canada. She currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies and a Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. She focuses on identifying ethical and equity issues associated with transnational health care mobilities. Gavin J. Andrews is a professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University, in Canada. His books include Soundscapes of Wellbeing in Popular Music (2014), Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction (2018), Geographical Gerontology (2018), and Non-Representational Theory and Health (2018). Jamie Pearce is a professor of health geography at the University of Edinburgh, in the United Kingdom, where he is co-director of the Centre for Research on Environment Society and Health (CRESH) and director of the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science. His research seeks to understand various social, political and environmental mechanisms in health and health-related behaviour.

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