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Health geography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care.
The study of health geography has been influenced by (re)positioning of medical geography within the field of social geography due to a shift from a medical model to a social model in healthcare, which advocates for the redefinition of health and health care away from prevention and treatment of illness only to one of promoting well-being in general. Under this model, some previous illnesses (e.g., mental ill health) are recognized as behavior disturbances only, and other types of medicine (e.g., complementary or alternative medicine and traditional medicine) are studied by the medicine researchers, sometimes with the aid of health geographers without medical education. This shift changes the definition of care, no longer limiting it to spaces such as hospitals or doctor's offices. Also, the social model gives primacy to the intimate encounters performed at non-traditional spaces of medicine and healthcare as well as to the individuals as health consumers.
Candace Nykiforuk is a researcher in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta. As a health geographer, her work focuses on people, the places in which they live and how those places influence their health. Find out more about her research: https://uofa.ualberta.ca/public-health/about/faculty-staff/academic-listing/candace-nykiforuk
CHS member Nadine Schuurman's health geography research ranges from global health to health and the built urban environment. Common themes to her research include: spatial access to health services; health surveillance; volunteered geographic information; and the influence of the environment on health events. Thank you to the following for the use of: Music - Bow Down by Jahzzar (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/jahzzar/) Photos - Via Flickr, CC License: Secretary of Defense joins hundreds of volunteers to build a playground in one day as part of 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance by Fort George G. Meade Public Affairs Office (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ftmeade/6134225346) Granton, WI. Rural Farm by B Garrett (http://www.flickr.com/photos/billgarrett-newagecrap/14798361128) High...
The Geography of Health: How Race Based Policies and Real Estate Practices Shaped Today's Health Inequity Hot Spots. Most US cities have health inequity "hot spots" - neighborhoods and communities with especially poor health outcomes compared to the rest of the city. These areas, characterized by high concentrations of low-income, predominantly minority families and individuals, did not arise by chance but are, instead, the result of decades of disinvestment driven by race-based government policies and real estate practices. Please join us as David Norris, researcher from the Kirwan Institute, explores the link between history and health, with an emphasis on the need to include race as a necessary part of the conversation to correct health disparities.
http://www.dailyrxnews.com/end-stage-kidney-disease-patients-need-specialized-care-may-not-be-available-everywhere End-stage kidney disease requires complex and specialized care — care that may not be available everywhere in the US. A first-of-its-kind study found that people with end-stage kidney disease received different levels of care depending on where they lived. These geographical differences appeared to affect survival rates. Primary doctors should be alert for subtle signs of kidney disease and refer patients to specialists early, said the authors of this study. "If you are a person with kidney failure in Texas you're in trouble, but if you're in New England you're golden, and that's profoundly troubling because the quality of care shouldn't be predicated on your ZIP code," sa...
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Candace Nykiforuk is a researcher in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta. As a health geographer, her work focuses on people, the places in which they live and how those places influence their health. Find out more about her research: https://uofa.ualberta.ca/public-health/about/faculty-staff/academic-listing/candace-nykiforuk
CHS member Nadine Schuurman's health geography research ranges from global health to health and the built urban environment. Common themes to her research include: spatial access to health services; health surveillance; volunteered geographic information; and the influence of the environment on health events. Thank you to the following for the use of: Music - Bow Down by Jahzzar (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/jahzzar/) Photos - Via Flickr, CC License: Secretary of Defense joins hundreds of volunteers to build a playground in one day as part of 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance by Fort George G. Meade Public Affairs Office (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ftmeade/6134225346) Granton, WI. Rural Farm by B Garrett (http://www.flickr.com/photos/billgarrett-newagecrap/14798361128) High...
The Geography of Health: How Race Based Policies and Real Estate Practices Shaped Today's Health Inequity Hot Spots. Most US cities have health inequity "hot spots" - neighborhoods and communities with especially poor health outcomes compared to the rest of the city. These areas, characterized by high concentrations of low-income, predominantly minority families and individuals, did not arise by chance but are, instead, the result of decades of disinvestment driven by race-based government policies and real estate practices. Please join us as David Norris, researcher from the Kirwan Institute, explores the link between history and health, with an emphasis on the need to include race as a necessary part of the conversation to correct health disparities.
http://www.dailyrxnews.com/end-stage-kidney-disease-patients-need-specialized-care-may-not-be-available-everywhere End-stage kidney disease requires complex and specialized care — care that may not be available everywhere in the US. A first-of-its-kind study found that people with end-stage kidney disease received different levels of care depending on where they lived. These geographical differences appeared to affect survival rates. Primary doctors should be alert for subtle signs of kidney disease and refer patients to specialists early, said the authors of this study. "If you are a person with kidney failure in Texas you're in trouble, but if you're in New England you're golden, and that's profoundly troubling because the quality of care shouldn't be predicated on your ZIP code," sa...
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The Geography of Health: How Race Based Policies and Real Estate Practices Shaped Today's Health Inequity Hot Spots. Most US cities have health inequity "hot spots" - neighborhoods and communities with especially poor health outcomes compared to the rest of the city. These areas, characterized by high concentrations of low-income, predominantly minority families and individuals, did not arise by chance but are, instead, the result of decades of disinvestment driven by race-based government policies and real estate practices. Please join us as David Norris, researcher from the Kirwan Institute, explores the link between history and health, with an emphasis on the need to include race as a necessary part of the conversation to correct health disparities.
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