Books in the Geographies of Health Series series

Unearthing the messy and sprawling interrelationships of place, wellbeing, and popular music, this book explores musical soundscapes of health, ranging from activism to international charity, to therapeutic treatments and how wellbeing is sought and attained in contexts of music. Drawing on critical social theories of the production, circulation, and consumption of popular music, the book gathers together diverse insights from geographers and musicologists. Popular music has become increasingly embedded in complex and often contradictory discourses of wellbeing. For instance, some new genres and sub-cultures of popular music are associated with violence, drug-use, and the angst of living, yet simultaneously define the hopes and dreams of millions of young people. At a service level, popular music is increasingly used as a therapeutic modality in holistic medicine, as well as in conventional health care and public health practice. The genre of popular music, then, is fundamental to human wellbeing as an active and central part of peopleΓÇÖs emotional lives. By conceptually and empirically foregrounding place, this book demonstrates how - music whether from particular places, about particular places, or played in particular places ΓÇ¥ is a crucial component of health and wellbeing.

Research in health geographies has seen the ongoing development of therapeutic landscapes. Emerging contemporary research explores nature-based health and health-enabling places. This book asks questions about the relationships between water, health and well-being.

The geographies of health and development is an emerging sub-discipline, tying in with many of the conceptual, theoretical and practical components of other disciplines working in health, health care, economics, and international development. Spatially and theoretically grounded in geography, this collection offers a fresh perspective on the dialectic relationships between health and development. Health problems in a developing context take on much higher rates of prevalence as a result of the varied cultural, structural and economic vulnerabilities of the people they impact. This book begins by exploring some of the circumstances surrounding the distinctive health inequities currently facing many developing countries, including malaria, maternal mortality and HIV/AIDS. This is followed by a discussion of how matters of physical access and human resource issues and, perhaps most importantly, the challenges of financing, together shape the access and utilization of health care. Examining how the environment interacts to influence the health of the people that live there, the next section includes discussion around challenges of food (in)security, and the importance of clean and uncontaminated water for health. Finally, the book explores the influence of globalization on health, specifically within the urban environment, against the backdrop of global health policy.

How children experience, negotiate and connect with - or resist - their physical and social environment impacts their health and wellbeing. This book brings together different accounts and experiences of children's health and wellbeing in urban environments from majority and minority world perspectives. Privileging children's expertise, this timely collection explicitly explores the relationships between health, wellbeing and place. It draws on the expertise of geographers, educationists, anthropologists, psychologists, planners, nurses and social workers to unpack meanings of physical, social and symbolic environments that constrain or enable children's flourishing in urban spaces.

Representing a diverse array of health concerns ranging across chronic and infectious diseases and including research employing varied qualitative and quantitative methodologies, this book illustrates how geographic concepts and approaches have informed the design and planning of interventions and the evaluation of health impacts. The authors argue that geographically targeting interventions to places of high-need and tailoring interventions to local place contexts are critically important for intervention success. Including an afterword by Professor Louise Potvin, this book will appeal to researchers interested in population and public/community health and epidemiology as well as health geography.

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. This title is suitable to health and geographic researchers.

Presents work related to sense of place and health, defined from the perspective of a variety of fields and disciplines. This book offers an understanding of both the range of applications of this construct within approaches to human health as well as the breadth of research methodologies employed in its investigation.

Bringing together a range of different place-studies, including holy wells, spa towns, Turkish baths and sweat-houses, sea-bathing and the modern spa, this book investigates associations between water, health, place and culture in Ireland.

Drawing together the international evidence for environmental explanations of rising obesity rates in the developed world, this book examines the many ways in which the contexts in which people live their lives promote an imbalance of energy intake over energy expenditure.

Stress and anxiety, and other mental illnesses are linked to risks in the environment. This book questions how and why the social and physical environment matters for mental health and psychological wellbeing in human populations. It presents a framework for studying how attributes of 'space' and 'place' are associated with human mental wellbeing.

Looking at health and health care in a different way, this book examines health risks and benefits as encountered 'on the move' rather than focusing on the risks and benefits incurred at fixed locations. It investigates the provision and utilization of health care, as produced/delivered and consumed/accessed in mobile settings.

Addresses key concerns about the nature and site of care and care-giving. This work presents an analysis of how the intersection of informal care-giving within domestic, community and residential care homes can create complex landscapes and organizational spatialities of care.

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 book provides an introduction to the concept and its applications. It also gives a critical evaluation of the development and progress of the concept.

Focuses on changes in primary health care, not only because it is the most basic and integral form of health service delivery, but also because it is an area to which geographers have made significant contributions and to which other scholars have engaged in 'thinking geographically' about its core concepts and issues.

Health problems in a developing context take on much higher rates of prevalence as a result of the varied cultural, structural and economic vulnerabilities of the people they impact. Spatially and theoretically grounded in geography, this collection offers a fresh perspective on the dialectic relationships between health and development.

Popular music has become increasingly embedded in complex and often contradictory discourses of wellbeing. For instance, some new genres and sub-cultures of popular music are associated with violence, drug-use, and the angst of living yet simultaneously define the hopes and dreams of millions of young people. At a service level.

Geography has made very significant contributions to our understanding of disabled people's identities, lives and places in society and space. This title puts forward the 'second wave' of geographical studies concerned with disability and embodied differences.