Geographies of Health Series: Geographies of Health Series
About the Book Series
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There is growing interest in the geographies of health and a continued interest in what has more traditionally been labeled medical geography. The traditional focus of ’medical geography’ on areas such as disease ecology, health service provision and disease mapping (all of which continue to reflect a mainly quantitative approach to inquiry) has evolved to a focus on a broader, theoretically informed epistemology of health geographies in an expanded international reach. As a result, we now find this subdiscipline characterized by a strongly theoretically-informed research agenda, embracing a range of methods (quantitative; qualitative and the integration of the two) of inquiry concerned with questions of: risk; representation and meaning; inequality and power; culture and difference, among others. Health mapping and modeling, has simultaneously been strengthened by the technical advances made in multilevel modeling, advanced spatial analytic methods and GIS, while further engaging in questions related to health inequalities, population health and environmental degradation. This series publishes superior quality research monographs and edited collections representing contemporary applications in the field; this encompasses original research as well as advances in methods, techniques and theories. The Geographies of Health series will capture the interest of a broad body of scholars, within the social sciences, the health sciences and beyond.
Global Health in Crisis?: Security, Foreign Policy and Covid-19 in Germany
1st Edition
By Mara Linden
November 18, 2025
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 ...
Anxious Geographies: Worlds of Social Anxiety
1st Edition
By Louise E. Boyle
October 27, 2025
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 ...
Health Disparities in the US and China: Spatial, Social, and Environmental Dimensions
1st Edition
By Yingru Li
August 18, 2025
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 ...
Gentrification and Public Health
1st Edition
Edited
By Ana Isabel Ribeiro, José Pedro Silva, Pedro Gullón, Thomas Astell-Burt
August 14, 2025
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 ...
Atmospheric Health, Nature, and Well-being: Towards a Philosophy of the Garden
1st Edition
By Paweł Jędrzejko, Marcin Fabjański, Dariusz Kubok
April 30, 2025
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 ...
Equity in Global Health Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Elijah Bisung, Katrina Plamondon
April 14, 2025
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 ...
Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes: Gardening for Prevention, Restoration, and Equity
1st Edition
Edited
By Pauline Marsh, Allison Williams
December 18, 2024
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 ...
Geography, Health and Sustainability: Gender Matters Globally
1st Edition
Edited
By Allison Williams, Isaac Luginaah
May 31, 2023
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
1st Edition
Edited
By Christina R. Ergler, Robin Kearns, Karen Witten
March 31, 2021
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 ...
Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing: Hydrophilia Unbounded
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronan Foley, Robin Kearns, Thomas Kistemann, Ben Wheeler
September 30, 2020
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
1st Edition
By John Eyles, Jamie Baxter
September 30, 2020
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 ...
Place, Health, and Diversity: Learning from the Canadian Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Melissa D. Giesbrecht, Valorie A. Crooks
September 30, 2020
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 ...