Place, Health, and Diversity Learning from the Canadian Experience |
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| Editor:
| Giesbrecht, Melissa D.
Crooks, Valorie A. |
| Series title: | Geographies of Health Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4724-4502-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2016 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $125.00 |
Book Description:
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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 concepts like place, in both the physical and social sense, allows researchers to explore multiple axes of difference simultaneously. Such...
More DescriptionSpecifically 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 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.