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Background Spatial inequalities in health result from different exposures to health risk
factors according to the features of geographical contexts, in terms of physical environment …

The geographies of health inequalities are a long-established and central tenet of research
in medical geography (see Curtis, 2004) and, as with other parts of the subdiscipline …

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 …

The short paper provides an overview on how geographic issues have become increasingly
relevant to public health research and policy, particularly through the lens of geographic …

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 …

This book has been written for readers with a range of different interests. Students
undertaking school or university courses in geography will probably come to this book with …

Place matters; it contextualizes health. When examining the influence of community,
neighborhood, and social space, researchers from multiple disciplines 1-10 found that …

Background Identification of socioeconomic and health inequalities at the local scale is
facilitated by using relevant small geographical sectors. Although these places are routinely …

In the past 10 years, interest in studying the relationship between area of residence and
health has grown. During this period empirical relations between place and health have …