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47 produkter
Geography, Health and Sustainability
Gender Matters Globally
Av Allison Williams, Isaac Luginaah
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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With a global commitment to achieve gender equality by 2030, the SDGs present a historic opportunity to place gender as central to human progress across the globe. Gender equality, which requires the empowerment of all women and girls, is an explicit goal, in addition to being a fundamental …
Children's Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments
Av Christina R. Ergler, Robin Kearns m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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How children experience, negotiate and connect with or resist their surroundings impacts on their health and wellbeing. In cities, various aspects of the physical and social environment can affect children’s wellbeing. This edited collection brings together different accounts and experiences of …
Equity in Global Health Research
Av Elijah Bisung, Katrina Plamondon
Inbunden, 2023
2578 kr
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This thoughtful book offers unique insights on global health research, drawing attention to the equity choices embedded in day-to-day patterns and assumptions that shape how people do, think about, and navigate research.It invites readers to position equity as the driving principle and purpose of …
Public Health, Disease and Development in Africa
Av Ezekiel Kalipeni, Juliet Iwelunmor m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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The closure of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 prompted the need for a book of this kind. 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 …
Geographies of Plague Pandemics
The Spatial-Temporal Behavior of Plague to the Modern Day
Av Mark Welford
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Geographies of Plague Pandemics synthesizes our current understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plague, Yersinia pestis. The environmental, political, economic, and social impacts of the plague from Ancient Greece to the modern day are examined. Chapters explore the identity of plague …
Non-Representational Theory & Health
The Health in Life in Space-Time Revealing
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its taking-place. It shows how material, sensory and affective processes combine with conscious thought and agency in the making of everyday life. This book offers an agenda for health geography, providing the first …
Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing
Hydrophilia Unbounded
Av Ronan Foley, Robin Kearns m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
740 kr
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Health geography makes critical contributions to contemporary and emerging interdisciplinary agendas of nature-based health and health-enabling places. Couched in theory and critical empirical work on nature and health, this book addresses questions on the relationships between water, health and …
Environments, Risks and Health
Social Perspectives
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Much of the scientific work on environmental health research has come from the clinical and biophysical sciences. Yet contributions are being made from the social sciences with respect to economic change, distributional equities, political will, public perceptions and the social geographical …
Practicing Qualitative Methods in Health Geographies
Av Nancy E. Fenton, Jamie Baxter
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Health geographers are increasingly turning to a diverse range of interpretative methodologies to explore the complexities of health, illness, space and place to gain more comprehensive understandings of well-being and broader social models of health and health care. Drawing upon postmodernism, …
Population Health Intervention Research
Geographical perspectives
Av Daniel W. Harrington, Sara McLafferty m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Health geographers are well situated for undertaking population health intervention research (PHIR), and have an opportunity to be at the forefront of this emerging area of inquiry. However, in order to advance PHIR, the scientific community needs to be innovative with its methodologies, theories, …
Place, Health, and Diversity
Learning from the Canadian Experience
Av Melissa D. Giesbrecht, Valorie A. Crooks
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Although health equity and diversity-focussed research has begun to gain momentum, there is still a paucity of research from health geographers that explicitly explores how geographic factors, such as place, space, scale, community, and location, inform multiple axes of difference. Such axes can …
Afterlives of the Psychiatric Asylum
Recycling Concepts, Sites and Memories
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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The last 40 years has seen a significant shift from state commitment to asylum-based mental health care to a mixed economy of care in a variety of locations. In the wake of this deinstitutionalisation, attention to date has focussed on users and providers of care. The consequences for the idea and …
Geography, Health and Sustainability
Gender Matters Globally
Av Allison Williams, Isaac Luginaah
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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With a global commitment to achieve gender equality by 2030, the SDGs present a historic opportunity to place gender as central to human progress across the globe. Gender equality, which requires the empowerment of all women and girls, is an explicit goal, in addition to being a fundamental …
Therapeutic Landscapes
Inbunden, 2007
2504 kr
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The therapeutic landscape concept, first introduced early in the 1990s, has been widely employed in health/medical geography and gaining momentum in various health-related disciplines. This is the first book published in several years, and provides an introduction to the concept and its …
Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place
Av Valorie A. Crooks, Gavin J. Andrews
Inbunden, 2008
2578 kr
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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. Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place draws together …
Sense of Place, Health and Quality of Life
Av Allison Williams, John Eyles
Inbunden, 2008
2818 kr
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A significant body of theoretical and empirical studies describes 'sense of place' as an outcome of interconnected psychological, social and environmental processes in relation to physical place(s). Sense of place has been examined, particularly in human geography, in terms of both the character …
Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing
Hydrophilia Unbounded
Av Ronan Foley, Robin Kearns m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2578 kr
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Health geography makes critical contributions to contemporary and emerging interdisciplinary agendas of nature-based health and health-enabling places. Couched in theory and critical empirical work on nature and health, this book addresses questions on the relationships between water, health and …
Anxious Geographies
Worlds of Social Anxiety
Inbunden, 2024
2578 kr
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Anxious Geographies offers a unique perspective on social anxiety, framing it as both a social and spatial phenomenon. Through a meticulous exploration using online questionnaires and interviews, the book provides a crucial examination of the intricacies of anxious lives.This book presents a …
Anxious Geographies
Worlds of Social Anxiety
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Anxious Geographies offers a unique perspective on social anxiety, framing it as both a social and spatial phenomenon. Through a meticulous exploration using online questionnaires and interviews, the book provides a crucial examination of the intricacies of anxious lives.This book presents a …
Atmospheric Health, Nature, and Well-being
Towards a Philosophy of the Garden
Av Paweł Jędrzejko, Marcin Fabjański m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2578 kr
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Reimagining the garden as a vital metaphysical framework for understanding the intricate relationships between health, well-being, and the environment, the book proposes a holistic, ecologically sensitive model that integrates mind, body, nature, and community.The text offers the reader a …
Atmospheric Health, Nature, and Well-being
Towards a Philosophy of the Garden
Av Paweł Jędrzejko, Marcin Fabjański m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
704 kr
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Reimagining the garden as a vital metaphysical framework for understanding the intricate relationships between health, well-being, and the environment, the book proposes a holistic, ecologically sensitive model that integrates mind, body, nature, and community.The text offers the reader a …
Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes
Gardening for Prevention, Restoration, and Equity
Av Pauline Marsh, Allison Williams
Inbunden, 2023
2578 kr
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Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing. In this book we explore the ways in which gardens and gardening prevent illness and restore wellbeing, and how they improve social and health equity via …
Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes
Gardening for Prevention, Restoration, and Equity
Av Pauline Marsh, Allison Williams
Häftad, 2024
665 kr
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Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing. In this book we explore the ways in which gardens and gardening prevent illness and restore wellbeing, and how they improve social and health equity via …
Health Disparities in the US and China
Spatial, Social, and Environmental Dimensions
Av Yingru Li
Inbunden, 2025
2504 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive insight into health disparities in both the United States and China. It offers valuable perspectives on public health and policy through an examination of the spatial, social, and environmental dimensions of health disparities.Through comparative analysis of two …
Health Disparities in the US and China
Spatial, Social, and Environmental Dimensions
Av Yingru Li
Häftad, 2026
694 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive insight into health disparities in both the United States and China. It offers valuable perspectives on public health and policy through an examination of the spatial, social, and environmental dimensions of health disparities.Through comparative analysis of two …
Equity in Global Health Research
Av Elijah Bisung, Katrina Plamondon
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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This thoughtful book offers unique insights on global health research, drawing attention to the equity choices embedded in day-to-day patterns and assumptions that shape how people do, think about, and navigate research.It invites readers to position equity as the driving principle and purpose of …
Gentrification and Public Health
Av Ana Isabel Ribeiro, José Pedro Silva m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2578 kr
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This book explores the profound impacts of gentrification on public health, examining how this process reshapes socioeconomic and physical environments, exacerbates health disparities, and influences lived experiences. It does so through diverse theoretical, methodological, and empirical …
Gentrification and Public Health
Av Ana Isabel Ribeiro, José Pedro Silva m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
715 kr
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This book explores the profound impacts of gentrification on public health, examining how this process reshapes socioeconomic and physical environments, exacerbates health disparities, and influences lived experiences. It does so through diverse theoretical, methodological, and empirical …
Exploring Place and Health through Community Health Interventions
Av Michelle Vine, Rachel Harris m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
2542 kr
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This book intends to demonstrate the work and existence of the community health (CH) sector in Canada and its contributions to health and wellbeing, understand why it has not been prioritized to date, and make the case for teaching and learning about it as a step towards recognizing and resourcing …
Global Health in Crisis?
Security, Foreign Policy and Covid-19 in Germany
Av Mara Linden
Inbunden, 2025
2578 kr
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This book examines global health as a foreign policy issue in Germany, exploring its entanglement with security and economic concerns. Based on an ethnography at the German Federal Foreign Office (FFO) during Covid-19, it explores the emergence of this policy field, its variations in the pandemic …
