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Health, Place & Society
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Have you ever thought about why some people are healthier and live longer than others? Unless you have never had the opportunity to go somewhere other than your immediate area of residence, you are bound to have noticed how different places vary, in terms of factors such as the housing you see (its design, size and quality), the facilities there (parks, shops, cinemas, factories) and the people (tall, short, fat, scruffy, happy or sad). You may also be aware that people vary as well: some smoke, some don‟t; some are rich and some poor; some live alone and others share their home with members of their family, or with friends. This book is about bringing these issues together – how people, places and health vary, and how they interact. The book is thus about social and spatial aspects of health – how and why health can vary between different places and between different social groups.
In reading this book (as well as the related reading and activities we suggest) you will learn not only about a range of topics and themes, but also about the disciplines that we refer to here as „medical geography‟ and „medical sociology‟. You will begin to find out about different perspectives (ways of looking at the world) different ways of gathering information (research sources and methods) and some of the ways that we can interrogate data in order to answer our research questions (types of analysis). We have endeavoured to write the book in a style that will hopefully appeal to anyone interested in learning about the world around them – so while it is substantively about issues surrounding health, many of the principles and practices could be applied to other topic areas. It‟s as much about provoking thought as about passing on knowledge.
Mary Shaw, Danny Dorling and Richard Mitchell - Personal Name
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Social Science
English
2001
1-230
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