PLAN104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Health Geography, Placemaking, Food Security
8 Jun 2016
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Health geographer; examines how space/place/environment (built, physical, political) influence human health. Focus on disease distribution and diffusion, access to health care, determinants of health status, concepts of death. John snow father of health geography among others. 19th century england, cholera researched and mapped new cases, found it"s centered on an area by a street pump. Research areas: local environmental determinants of health. Social, economic, physical, political: sense of place, place-making, social inclusion. Perspectives of residents, marginalized populations (youth, immigrants: healthy public policy. Developing municipal agenda for innovative and emerging active transportation options. Socially constructed; what we know about healthy" changes over space and time. It depends on social norms and public perceptions; based on scientific evidence/expert knowledge of the time. Absence of disease/sickness; biomedical model, mechanistic view of nody disease-specific ailment diagnosed by a medical practitioner with obvious symptoms. A state of compete physical, mental, and social well-being world health.
