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Looking at health and health care in a new way, this book examines health risks and benefits as encountered 'on the move' rather than focusing on the risks and benefits incurred at fixed locations. There is a strong case today for a specific focus on mental public health and its relation to social and physical environments. From a public health perspective, we now appreciate the enormous significance of mental distress and illness as causes of disability and impairment.

Edited by Mark Skinner , Neil Hanlon. Edited by Melissa D. It study the origins and course of urban development process by identifying and explaining… Paperback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography. One of the most significant social and economic changes of recent years has been the explosion in the number of mothers in the work place and in paid employment generally. Common to all of the initiatives is recognition of the importance of the community environment for the well-being of the rapidly growing numbers of older… Paperback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography. Add to Wish List. It explores the key concepts central to appreciating the ways in which place influences our health, from the micro-space of the body to the macro-scale of entire world regions, in order to articulate historical and contemporary aspects of this influence.

Bringing together a range of different place-studies, including holy wells, spa towns, Turkish baths and sweat-houses, sea-bathing and the modern spa, this book investigates associations between water, health, place and culture in Ireland. It is informed by a humanistic approach, showing how health…. Edited by Vera Chouinard.

Over the past 15 years, geography has made many significant contributions to our understanding of disabled people's identities, lives, and place in society and space. Edited by Jamie Pearce. Over the past two decades, rates of adult and childhood obesity in the developed world have risen sharply. Whilst medical treatment has tended to focus on individual habits of diet and exercise, this approach….

Against a background of debate around global ageing and what this means in terms of the future care need of older people, this book addresses key concerns about the nature and site of care and care-giving. Following a critical review of research into who cares, where and how, it uses geographical….

Edited by Valorie A. Health care is constantly undergoing change and refinement resulting from the adoption of new practices and technologies, the changing nature of societies and populations, and also shifts in the very places from which care is delivered. People, Practice, Place draws together…. Edited by Allison Williams. This is the first book published in several years, and provides an introduction to the concept and its….

An interdisciplinary group of global health scholars contribute to the understanding of the emerging and fast-growing problem of the dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases … Hardback — Routledge Geographies of Health Series. Chapters explore the identity of plague… Hardback — Routledge Geographies of Health Series.

Andrews Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its taking-place. This book offers an agenda for health geography, providing the… Hardback — Routledge Geographies of Health Series. Geographies of Health and Development Edited by Rachel Bezner Kerr , Isaac Luginaah The geographies of health and development is an emerging sub-discipline, tying in with many of the conceptual, theoretical and practical components of other disciplines working in health, health care, economics, and international development.

Spatially and theoretically grounded in geography, this… Paperback — Routledge Geographies of Health Series. Spatial Analysis in Health Geography By Pavlos Kanaroglou , Eric Delmelle Presenting current research on spatial epidemiology, this book covers topics such as exposure, chronic disease, infectious disease, accessibility to health care settings and new methods in Geographical Information Science and Systems.

For epidemiologists, and for the management and administration… Paperback — Routledge Geographies of Health Series. Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing Hydrophilia Unbounded Edited by Ronan Foley , Robin Kearns , Thomas Kistemann , Ben Wheeler Recent research within health geographies has seen the ongoing development of therapeutic landscapes, and across a wide range of disciplines, there has been a parallel development in research on nature based health and health-enabling places.

This book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the… Hardback — Routledge Geographies of Health Series. This book underlines the growing importance of knowledge for the competitiveness of cities and their regions. Examining the role of knowledge - in its economic, socio-cultural, spatial and institutional forms - for urban and regional development, identifying the preconditions for innovative use of…. Edited by Ash Amin , Philip Howell.

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This book moves beyond seeing the commons in the past tense, an entity passed over from the public into the private, to reimagine the commons as a process, a contest of force, a reconstitution, and a site of convening practices. It highlights new spaces of gathering opening up, such as the digital…. Migration is one of the driving forces of economic and social change in the modern world.

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This book discovers and describes these relationships of new geographies,…. Edited by Julie Cidell , David Prytherch. The contemporary urban experience is defined by flow and structured by circulating people, objects, and energy. Geographers have long provided key insights into transportation systems. But today, concerns for social justice and sustainability motivate new, critical approaches to mobilities. Edited by Elizabeth A. Mack , Haifeng Qian. This book addresses a gap in the present literature on the role that geography plays in the distribution of entrepreneurial activity. Emerging work on entrepreneurial ecosystems suggests it is important entrepreneurship studies move beyond the mere identification of factors that impact….

International borders have become deadly barriers of a proportion rivaled only by war or natural disaster. What alternatives do we have to prevent the deadly results of contemporary…. It explores the complexity and multiple temporalities that surround mothering, such as dreaming about…. Edited by Mark W. Skinner , Gavin J.

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Many things become commodities that are compared and valuated on markets around the globe. Places such as cities or regions, countries and nations attempt to acquire visibility through branding. The financial malaise that has affected the Eurozone countries of southern Europe — Spain, Portugal, Italy and, in its most extreme case, Greece — has been analysed using mainly macroeconomic and financial explanations.

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This book shifts the emphasis from macroeconomics to the relationship between…. By Greg Halseth , Laura Ryser. This book advances our understanding of resource-dependent regions in developed economies in the 21st Century. Edited by Peter V. Hall , Markus Hesse. Urban regions have come under increasing pressure to adapt to the imperatives of mobility, including greater freedom of travel, rising trade volumes and global economic networks.

Whereas urbanization was once characterized by the concentration of services and facilities, urban areas now have to…. Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. With urban inequality widely…. Edited by Peter W. Ho , Thomas A. Edited by Brian King , Kelley A. Human health exists at the interface of environment and society. Decades of work by researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers has shown that health is shaped by a myriad of factors, including the biophysical environment, climate, political economy, gender, social networks, culture, and….

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Edited by Anthony G. Yeh , Fiona F. In the past three decades, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of economic and urban development. In many countries, particularly in the Global North, established forms of solidarity within communities are said to be challenged by the increasing ethnic and cultural diversity of the population. Recording studios are the most insulated, intimate and privileged sites of music production and creativity. Yet in a world of intensified globalisation, they are also sites which are highly connected into wider networks of music production that are increasingly spanning the globe.

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