Concept information
Preferred term
geography of health and health care
Definition
- Geographers studying health and healthcare often employ concepts from contemporary social theory such as structuralism, humanism, poststructuralism, and postmodernism to examine relationships among health, health services, and places. The subdiscipline was developed during the mid-1990s as a reform of medical geography. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Health and Healthcare, Geography of]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/geography_of_health_and_health_care
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