Background Primary health care (PHC) encompasses an array of health and social services
that focus on preventative, diagnostic, and basic care measures to maintain wellbeing and …

In the second edition of An Introduction to the Geography of Health, Helen Hazen and Peter
Anthamatten explore the ways in which geographic ideas and approaches can inform our …

This, the second of my short reports into aspects of the current state of medical geography,
concentrates on the themes of 'care'and 'caring'with respect to health and illness. This …

Geographic Variation in Access to Care with the full text of this article at NEJM. org, for
detailed methods used in the Scorecard, data sources, and definitions of indicators.) The …

This book is an expression of the myriad ways in which the range of geospatial methods and
technologies can be applied to the analysis of issues related to human and environmental …

In this paper, we reflect on the positioning of health geography within the wider academic
landscapes of geography and health-related research. Drawing on examples from a number …

In this chapter we consider the emergence and characteristics of the field of geographical
inquiry known as “health geography.” Drawing on the contentions of Kearns and Moon …

Recently, Geographical Information System (GIS) has emerged as an innovative and
important component of many projects in public health and epidemiology. One of the most …

Research into the role of place in shaping inequalities in health has focused largely on
examining individual and/or localised drivers, often using a context-composition framing …

Health disparities, which can be understood as disadvantages in health associated with
one's social, racial, economic, or physical environment, originate in childhood and persist …