At last! A "tour de force" on cities and health by someone who
knows that geography matters. This is a groundbreaking text,
preoccupied as much with health and well-being as with death,
disease and despair. It is concerned with who wins and who loses
from the social and spatial patterning of risk... Combining breadth
of coverage with depth of analysis, Health and Inequality provides
an intricate map of harmful spaces and healing places, together
with some guidelines on how to get from one to the other' -
"Professor Susan Smith, Ogilvie Professor of Geography, University
of Edinburgh
"
'Too often as health professionals we remain embedded in nursing
and medical literature neglecting the opportunities offered through
engaging with other bodies of knowledge. Such an opportunity
presents itself in this book which draws on work undertaken by
geographers that can help us in our thinking about health
inequalities. The strength of this work lies in its aim to ensure
that place and space are recognised as significant factors in
health inequalities'" - Community Practitioner
"
Health and Inequality presents a comprehensive analysis of how
geographical perspectives can be used to understand the problems of
health inequalities. The text has three principal themes: to
discuss the geography of health inequality and to examine
strategies for reducing disadvantage; to review and develop the
theoretical basis for a geographical analysis of these problems -
the discussion will illustrate how theoretical developments can
help in the design and evaluation of intervention; and to explain
how different methodologies in the geography of health, both
quantitative and qualitative, can be appliedin research -
demonstrating the complementarity between them. By relating
theoretical arguments to specific landscapes, Health and Inequality
will be a key resource for understanding the articulation between
theory and empirical methods for understanding health variation in
urban areas.
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