Steven Curti
Biographic Data
| ID | 181572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Curti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Curti |
| SIGNATURE | CURTI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4982-373X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 77 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1376 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 77 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
The past, present and future of health geography
This article traces the past, present and future of health geography through the career journeys of three notable academics, Sarah Curtis (SC), Julia Jones (JJ) and Graham Moon (GM). All three of these scholars have had entanglements with the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group (GHWRG) of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) (RGS‐IBG) throughout their careers, enabling them to shape health geog…
Wellbeing, space and society
This special issue presents research exploring various aspects of wellbeing in relation to diverse dimensions and experiences of ‘home spaces’. These papers draw attention to the significance for wellbeing of ‘home spaces’ conceptualised as both material and psychosocial environments as they relate to the immediate home environment of individuals and their households, as well as to their wider community. Several of the papers discuss home spaces …
Improving longitudinal research in geospatial health
Lifecourse of Place, and Intergenerational Transmission of Health Determinants
Using an approach framed by health geography perspectives (including the idea of ‘lifecourse of place’ as a health determinant), this study explores how the wellbeing of residents interviewed in two parts of Malta between 2013–2015 were found to be influenced by the physical, economic and social aspects of their place of residence, which had been generated over the long-term life-course of the place. Both study areas are relatively deprived, comp…
Being Well Together
This paper explores the ways in which community wellbeing is, and could be, related to individual subjective wellbeing by mapping current practice, teasing out the assumptions underlying a dominant approach and flagging neglected issues. The notion of community is widely understood as about something more than the sum of the parts. Capturing subjective aspects of local life that are not simply individual but reflect the ways in which people feel …
Adverse conditions for wellbeing at the neighbourhood scale in England
Data on 17,298 English respondents from two waves of the Understanding Society Survey. • Our composite area disadvantage indicator predicts change in self-reported wellbeing. • This analysis controls for characteristics of the individuals themselves. • Survey respondents’ sense of social cohesion may operate as an intermediate factor. • Findings demonstrate how to operationalise the idea of ‘wellbeing of (and in) places’
Changing levels of local crime and mental health
Background This study contributes robust evidence on the association between mental health and local crime rates by showing how changing exposure to small area-level crime relates to self-reported and administrative data on mental health. Methods The study sample comprised 112 251 adults aged 16–60 years, drawn from the Scottish Longitudinal Study, a 5.3% representative sample of Scottish population followed across censuses. Outcomes were individ…
Trajectories in mental health and socio-spatial conditions in a time of economic recovery and austerity
Feasibility Randomised Trial Comparing Two Forms of Mental Health Supported Accommodation (Supported Housing and Floating Outreach); a Component of the QuEST (Quality and Effectiveness of Supported Te…
Background: Mental health supported accommodation services are implemented across England, usually organised into a 'step-down' care pathway that requires the individual to repeatedly move as they gain skills and confidence for more independent living. There have been no trials comparing the effectiveness of different types of supported accommodation, but two widely used models (supported housing and floating outreach) have been found to provide …
Recession, local employment trends and change in self-reported health of individuals
Changing labour market conditions during the 'great recession' and mental health in Scotland 2007-2011
The experience of social determinants of health within a Southern European Maltese culture
Alcohol Risk Environments, Vulnerability, and Social Inequalities in Alcohol Consumption
Alcohol and alcohol related harm are key public health challenges. Research has shown that individual level factors, such as age and sex, are important predictors of alcohol consumption, but such factors provide only a partial account of the drivers of consumption. In this paper we argue that individual level factors interact with features of the 'risk environment' to increase the vulnerability of individuals to such environments. Features of the…
Health Inequalities
Health inequalities are differences in human health associated with sociogeographical position and environment, and are observed at various spatial scales. Health inequalities represent a significant challenge for societies globally, and could be reduced if the determinants of health were addressed for populations that are relatively disadvantaged. Particular concerns related to the determinants of health inequality include, but are not limited t…
Climate Change and Health
Expert bodies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2013) report increases in prevailing average temperatures as well as likely increases in the frequency of extreme weather‐related events such as heat waves and floods associated with climate change. These changes have implications for physical and mental health, the outcomes of which will depend on processes of mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. Important research in h…
Framing ‘fracking’
The prospect of fracking in the United Kingdom has been accompanied by significant public unease. We outline how the policy debate is being framed by UK institutional actors, finding evidence of a dominant discourse in which the policy approach is defined through a deficit model of public understanding of science and in which a technical approach to feasibility and safety is deemed as sufficient grounds for good policymaking. Deploying a delibera…
Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems
Our findings contribute to a growing international literature on how conceptual models from complexity theory may be relevant to inform planning in health and social care systems, helping to adapt and improve preparedness and resilience to extreme weather events. We focus on findings from two case studies in England and their relationship to national policy for adaptation. Complexity theory helped to frame strategies for planning for events that …
Therapeutic landscapes’ and the importance of nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment for psychiatric hospital design
Neighbourhood risk factors for Common Mental Disorders among young people aged 10–20 years
Place shaping to create health and wellbeing using health impact assessment
What Feedback do Students Want
The feedback that students receive on their assignments has been subject to a great deal of debate in universities across the globe. Whereas academics regularly complain that students do not engage with feedback by citing uncollected coursework, students repeatedly protest about the timeliness and quality of feedback, citing illegible, overly critical and a lack of verbal feedback. In this article we report on the findings of feedback practices f…
Spaces for smoking in a psychiatric hospital
Compassionate containment? Balancing technical safety and therapy in the design of psychiatric wards
Creating 'therapeutic landscapes' for mental health carers in inpatient settings
Although there has been a shift toward treatment in the home and the community, in the UK, inpatient facilities are still important in modern mental health care. 'Informal carers', including family members, often play an essential role, not only in providing care in the community but also in care of patients during periods of hospitalisation. UK National Health Service policies increasingly consider the position of these carers as 'partners' in t…
Neighbourhood deprivation and adolescent self-esteem
Understanding and representing 'place' in health research
Epidemiology, sociology, and geography have been successful in re-establishing interest in the role of place in shaping health and health inequalities. However, some of the relevant empirical research has relied on rather conventional conceptions of space and place and focused on isolating the "independent" contribution of place-level and individual-level factors. This approach may have resulted in an underestimate of the contribution of 'place' …
Mingling, observing, and lingering
Is There a Place for Geography in the Analysis of Health Inequality
This paper considers how ideas and evidence concerning geographical health variation are used in discourses relating to health inequalities. We consider the different concepts of space and place which are employed in these debates. Much of the discussion in the literature focuses on the relative importance of compositional and contextual effects in determining health variation between different geographical areas. We discuss some of the theory wh…
Modelling inequality in reported long term illness in the UK
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess the nature of the relation between health and social factors at both the aggregated scale of geographical areas and the individual scale. DESIGN AND SETTING: The individual data are derived from the sample of anonymised records (SAR) from the census of 1991 in Great Britain, and are combined with area data from this census. The ecological setting (context) was defined using multivariate methods to classify the 278 distr…
Area effects on health variation over the life-course
Therapy by design
Psychological distress among adolescents, and its relationship to individual, family and area characteristics in East London
This paper identifies factors associated with variation in psychosocial distress among adolescents in a relatively deprived and ethnically diverse inner city setting in London, UK. The research draws on literature which discusses whether neighbourhood socio-economic conditions are associated with mental health, as well as attributes of individual adolescents and their families. We report an analysis of data from the Research with East London Adol…
Residential mobility within England and urban-rural inequalities in mortality
This study is situated within the international literature on geographic health inequalities between urban and rural areas. Using data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS LS), this paper assesses the role of residential mobility within England between 1981 and 2001 in explaining geographic inequalities in all-cause mortality between urban and rural Local Authority Districts at the end of the period (deaths occurring be…
Post-migration geographical mobility, mental health and health service utilisation among Somali refugees in the UK
Socio-geographic mobility and health status
The paper reviews arguments that associations between small area socio-economic conditions and individual health are likely to vary according to the type of health condition considered. We comment on the importance of longitudinal research to examine how far area conditions predict later health outcomes, and also how far area variations in health may result from selective migration processes predicted by health status. Using data for 1996 and 200…
Health geographies I
This paper is the first of two linked progress reports on the application of ideas from complexity theory to health geography. In this paper we focus especially on research which seeks to explain variations in human health from a geographical perspective. We mainly discuss selected studies of geographies of human health which illustrate how ideas from complexity theory are applied empirically. In order to interpret more effectively the dynamic an…
Area social fragmentation, social support for individuals and psychosocial health in young adults
This paper uses national survey data for young adults in England to explore empirically the relationships between social fragmentation in communities (measured for geographical areas), social support experienced by individuals from their immediate social circle, and psychosocial health of young adults. After reviewing previous research about these associations, we adopted an empirical approach to these questions, which was innovative in using dat…
Creating 'therapeutic landscapes' for mental health carers in inpatient settings
Although there has been a shift toward treatment in the home and the community, in the UK, inpatient facilities are still important in modern mental health care. 'Informal carers', including family members, often play an essential role, not only in providing care in the community but also in care of patients during periods of hospitalisation. UK National Health Service policies increasingly consider the position of these carers as 'partners' in t…
Use of survey data and small area statistics to assess the link between individual morbidity and neighbourhood deprivation
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between sociogeographic factors and health, using a particular social indicator of neighbourhood deprivation. DESIGN--The study analysed the relationship between health problems (reported by randomly selected respondents to a household survey) and an area social indicator for the neighbourhoods where the respondents lived (based on census data). The area social indicator tested…
Unravelling the extent of inequalities in health across urban and rural areas
Studies of inequalities in health between rural and urban settings have produced mixed and sometimes conflicting results, depending on the national setting of the study, the level of geographic detail used to define rural areas and the health indicators studied. By focusing on morbidity data from a national sample of individuals, this study aims to examine the extent of inequalities in health between urban and rural areas, as well as inequalities…
New spaces of inpatient care for people with mental illness
Compassionate containment? Balancing technical safety and therapy in the design of psychiatric wards
Health geographies II
In this second of two progress reports on geographies of health, we continue a discussion framed from the perspective of complexity theory to consider research which is more particularly focused on health care and health policy. Using selected examples, we discuss how health care and policy have been influenced by ideas from complexity theory and consider the scope for more integrated health geography in future research. These studies illustrate …
Do area characteristics predict change in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity from ages 11 to 15 years
Geographies of health and climate change
Climate change presents significant challenges for human health and well-being and geography is contributing a growing field of knowledge relating to these processes. We outline here key dimensions of the debate, pointing to areas where human geographers can make a particularly strong contribution. These include: issues of adaptation and resilience; sustainability; environmental justice and socially unequal impacts of climate change; and psycholo…
Social inequalities in self-reported morbidity
Spaces for smoking in a psychiatric hospital
Socio-demographic variation in perceived illness and the use of primary care
Making Short Politics Placements Work
Short placements can provide an important and meaningful experience of politics in action for students who are unable to benefit from the generally lengthy placements currently on offer. This article is based on the findings of the three-year HEFCE-funded project The Scholarship of Engagement for Politics and explores the potential of short, local, research-based placements, which are embedded in modules, supported by online journaling and effect…
The ecological relationship between deprivation, social isolation and rates of hospital admission for acute psychiatric care
Spatial analysis of surgery locations in general practice
Socio-demographic variation in perceived illness and the use of primary care
Self reported morbidity in London and Manchester
Mortalité des Jeunes dans les Pays de la Communauté Européenne
Use of survey data and small area statistics to assess the link between individual morbidity and neighbourhood deprivation
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between sociogeographic factors and health, using a particular social indicator of neighbourhood deprivation. DESIGN--The study analysed the relationship between health problems (reported by randomly selected respondents to a household survey) and an area social indicator for the neighbourhoods where the respondents lived (based on census data). The area social indicator tested…
The Geography of Public Welfare Provision
1. Welfare Objectives and Socio-Spatial Inequality 2. Administrative Structures 3. The Administrative Geography of the Major Welfare Services 4. Young Children and their Families 5. Welfare Provision to the Elderly 6. Welfare Provision for Ethnic Minorities 7. The Geography of Resource Allocation for Welfare 8. The Geography of Welfare Needs and Provision
Social inequalities in self-reported morbidity
Sources of Instrumental Support for Dependent Elderly People in Three Parts of France
The paper focuses on the provision of instrumental support provided to dependent elderly people in France, presenting information collected in social surveys conducted in three regions of the country. This information is considered in the light of the results of studies from other countries on instrumental social support to the dependent elderly which are reviewed. The data analysed included measures of the potential social network of the respond…
The Slow Plague
The geography of health
This paper reviews some of the recent research in geography of health and health care from a British perspective. The literature reviewed illustrates a shift of emphasis from medical geography, towards geography of health and health care. Much recent work stresses «new» public health strategies. Government policies for improvement to population health and reforms to the National Health Service have also been investigated. The paper also discusses…
Geographic variation in illness and mortality
Modelling inequality in reported long term illness in the UK
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess the nature of the relation between health and social factors at both the aggregated scale of geographical areas and the individual scale. DESIGN AND SETTING: The individual data are derived from the sample of anonymised records (SAR) from the census of 1991 in Great Britain, and are combined with area data from this census. The ecological setting (context) was defined using multivariate methods to classify the 278 distr…
A multi-level perspective on small-area health and mortality
This paper considers morbidity and mortality variations at the small-area level in England and Wales and their relation to socio-economic factors. Separate affluence and deprivation effects on illness and mortality are identified from a single-level analysis, both exceeding the influence of social class, urbanity or ethnicity. A multi-level perspective is then adopted to explore ecological associations operating both at micro-area and higher leve…
Is There a Place for Geography in the Analysis of Health Inequality
This paper considers how ideas and evidence concerning geographical health variation are used in discourses relating to health inequalities. We consider the different concepts of space and place which are employed in these debates. Much of the discussion in the literature focuses on the relative importance of compositional and contextual effects in determining health variation between different geographical areas. We discuss some of the theory wh…
The Raga Guide
It is always exciting to come across a work that is scholarly as well as artistically engaging, in which the familiar distinctions between academic and popular, and scientific and aesthetic, are blurred. or outright resisted. The Raga Guide, a text accompanied by thorough transcriptions, plates of ragamala paintings, and four CDs of musical performance, is such a work. The latest and most comprehensible addition to a family of publications that h…
Quantifying and explaining changes in geographical inequality of infant mortality in England and Wales since the 1890s
This paper considers the changing spatial pattern of infant mortality in England and Wales over the last century for a constant area definition. The analysis proceeds at the level of registration districts as defined in the 1890s, generated using the British Isles Historical Geographical Information System. Infant mortality at this spatial definition is followed over four points in time, the most recent being the early 1990s. Using a variety of i…
Therapeutic landscapes the dynamic between place and wellness
Themes in British health geography at the end of the century
Therapy by design
Geographies of health
Policy and place
Area effects on health variation over the life-course
Geographical variation in acute psychiatric admissions within New York City 1990–2000
The paper analyses geographical variations in use of acute psychiatric inpatient services within New York City and how these have changed from 1990 to 2000. We review literature suggesting reasons for the variations observed. Data from the New York State Department of Health Statewide Planning Research and Cooperative System were combined with population census data to produce age standardized ratio indicators of admissions and of bed days, as me…
The Performance of Everyday Life
The ecological relationship between deprivation, social isolation and rates of hospital admission for acute psychiatric care
Sociology (56 works) · Medicine (51 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (46 works) · Geography (40 works) · Psychology (37 works) · Political science (30 works) · Demography (24 works) · Population (23 works) · Psychiatry (21 works) · Computer Science (19 works)