Geographies of Health: An Introduction by Gatrell, Anthony C.

Geographies of Health: An Introduction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780470672877)

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Geographies of Health: An Introduction by Gatrell, Anthony C.

Geographies of Health: An Introduction

$59.25
Geographies of Health: An Introduction by Gatrell, Anthony C.

Geographies of Health: An Introduction

$59.25
Format: Paperback
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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


Author: Anthony C. Gatrell, Susan J. Elliott
ISBN-10: 0470672870
ISBN-13: 9780470672877
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2014
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.60w x 1.00d
By Anthony C. Gatrell
By Anthony C. Gatrell
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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 Lten, 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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