Geographical variations are documented for a wide range of health care services. As many
such variations cannot be explained by demographical or epidemiological differences, they …

Important variations in access to health care and health outcomes are associated with
geography, giving rise to profound ethical concerns. This paper discusses the …

The National Health Service (NHS) is changing. The boundary between public and private
provision was becoming blurred well before the commercialisation associated with the …

Objectives A substantial body of evidence supports the beneficial health impact of an
increase in primary care physicians for underserved populations. However, given that in …

This article builds on geography's engagement with ethics by asking what normative
geographies focused on human health might look like. We use the ethics of care and human …

This paper aims at addressing some questions considering the conflicting normative claims
of partiality, ie to provide for the caring needs of the particular patient, and impartial claims of …

Geographic analyses of health-related issues have a long tradition in France, and have
often consisted of observational studies conducted by practitioners themselves. Such …

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 …

In this paper, the meaning and significance of ethical choices in the arena of health under
conditions of globalization are explored. The paper first discusses globalization, its theorized …

The geographically inequitable distribution of physicians has long posed a serious social
problem in Japan. The government tackled this problem by establishing and managing Jichi …