Place, Health, and Diversity: Learning from the Canadian Experience

ISBN-13: 9781472445025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 252 str.

Dr. Melissa D. Giesbrecht;Valorie A. Crooks; JD. MEd. Susan J. Elliott

Opis

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 include residential location, age, sex, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, religion, socio-economic status, marital status, sexual orientation, education level, and immigration status. Specifically focussing on Canada's rapidly changing society, which is becoming increasingly pluralized and diverse, this book examines the place-health-diversity intersection in this national context. Health geographers are well positioned to offer a valuable contribution to diversity-focussed research because place is inextricably linked to differential experiences of health. For example, access to health care and health promoting services and resources is largely influenced by where one is physically and socially situated within the web of diversity. Furthermore, applying geographic concepts like place, in both the physical and social sense, allows researchers to explore multiple axes of difference simultaneously. Such geographic perspectives, as presented in this book, offer new insights into what makes diverse people, in diverse places, with access to diverse resources (un)healthy in different ways in Canada and beyond.

Recenzje

’We live in an increasingly diverse and complex world where culture, tolerance, acceptance and difference run alongside disempowerment, intolerance, social and spatial inequity. If you want to understand how these axes of difference intersect with place, health and healthcare then read this thought-provoking edited volume. Though geographically anchored in the highly diverse Canadian landscape, the carefully crafted case studies and theoretical insights illustrate the importance of taking a diversity-focused approach to health geography that goes well beyond the Canadian context.’ Christine Milligan, Lancaster University, UK ’Although there has been much research published in health geography on diverse and often marginalized groups, overall the body of work has been produced sporadically and has lacked cohesion around the overarching theme of diversity. This excellent publication addresses this by bringing together a wealth of Canada-focused research in a single venue. A must read for a wide-range of scholars and students in the sub-discipline, the book is easily digested yet is both empirically detailed and theoretically insightful.’ Gavin Andrews, McMaster University, Canada