’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

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.
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Specifically focussing on Canada’s rapidly changing society, 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. Applying geographic conce
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1 Place, Health, and Diversity in CanadaMelissa D. Giesbrecht, Valorie A. Crooks, and Jeffrey Morgan2 Frameworks, Lenses, and Tools: Approaches to Conducting Diversity-Based Health Geography ResearchMelissa D. Giesbrecht, Valorie A. Crooks, and Jeffrey Morgan3 From Embedded In Place-to Marginalized Out-and Back Again: Indigenous Peoples’ Experience of Health in Canada Heather Castleden, Debbie Martin, and Diana Lewis4 Exploring the Intersections Between Violence, Place, and Mental Health in the Lives of Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People in CanadaCindy Holmes5 "I’m a Better Person When I’m Working": Supportive Workplaces, Mental Illness, and RecoveryJoshua Evans and Robert Wilton6 Spaces and Places: Engaging a Mixed-Methods Approach for Exploring the Multiple Geographies of Pedestrian InjuryJonathan Cinnamon and Daniel Z. Sui7 Counter-Mapping Inner City "Deprivation" in Winnipeg, Canada Jeffrey R. Masuda and Emily Skinner8 When is Helping Hurting? Understanding and Challenging the (Re)Production of Dominance in Narratives of Health, Place, and Difference in Hamilton, OntarioMadelaine C. Cahuas, Mannat Malik, and Sarah Wakefield9 Constructing the Liberal Health-care Consumer Online: A Content Analysis of Canadian Medical Tourism and Harm Reduction Service Provider WebsitesCristina Temenos and Rory Johnston10 Lived Experience in Context: The Diverse Interplay between Women Living with Fibromyalgia and Canada’s Health Care SystemValorie A. Crooks11 Aging, Gender, and "Triple Jeopardy" Through the Life CourseRachel V. Herron and Mark W. Rosenberg12 Does the Compassionate Care Benefit Adequately Support Vietnamese-Canadian Family Caregivers? A Diversity AnalysisIrene D. Lum and Allison H. Williams13 Conclusion: Ways Ahead in Diversity-Based Health Geography ResearchValorie A. Crooks and Melissa D. Giesbrecht
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’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
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780367668327
Publisert
2020-09-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
252

Om bidragsyterne

Melissa D. Giesbrecht is Research Associate at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Valorie A. Crooks is a health geographer and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University, Canada.