Wilbert M Gesler
Biographic Data
| ID | 280836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wilbert M Gesler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wilbert M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gesler |
| SIGNATURE | GESLER W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 636 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Compassionate containment? Balancing technical safety and therapy in the design of psychiatric wards
The Effects of Geography and Spatial Behavior on Health Care Utilization among the Residents of a Rural Region
Objective. This analysis determines the importance of geography and spatial behavior as predisposing and enabling factors in rural health care utilization, controlling for demographic, social, cultural, and health status factors. Data Sources. A survey of 1,059 adults in 12 rural Appalachian North Carolina counties. Study Design. This cross‐sectional study used a three‐stage sampling design stratified by county and ethnicity. Preliminary analysis…
A suite of methods for representing activity space in a healthcare accessibility study
Diabetes Beliefs Among Low-income, White Residents of a Rural North Carolina Community
CONTEXT: Every social group shares beliefs about health and illness. Knowledge and understanding of these health beliefs are essential for education programs to address health promotion and illness prevention. PURPOSE: This analysis describes the diabetes Explanatory Models of Illness (EMs) of low-income, rural, white Southerners who have not been diagnosed with diabetes. METHOD: In-depth interviews were conducted with low-income white women (n =…
Access to Transportation and Health Care Utilization in a Rural Region
CONTEXT: Access to transportation to transverse the large distances between residences and health services in rural settings is a necessity. However, little research has examined directly access to transportation in analyses of rural health care utilization. PURPOSE: This analysis addresses the association of transportation and health care utilization in a rural region. METHODS: Using survey data from a sample of 1,059 households located in 12 we…
Identifying diabetes knowledge network nodes as sites for a diabetes prevention program
Reconsidering the concept of therapeutic landscapes in J D Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Researchers usually examine therapeutic landscapes, spaces that have or are felt to have healing properties, in positive terms. We reconsider the therapeutic landscape notion by applying it to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye . The main character, Holden Caulfield, is sickened by his transition between childhood and adulthood, and he relies on therapeutic landscapes as an imaginary escape. Yet his therapeutic landscapes are oversimplified …
Diabetes meanings a mong those without diabetes: Explanatory models of immigrant Latinos in rural North Carolina
A spatial analysis of county-level variation in hospitalization rates for low back problems in North Carolina
Sõnad haigetoas. Keel, tervis ja koht
The role of place in medical encounters that involve language is examined using theoretical arguments backed by empirical studies. Links between language and place, health and place and especially language and health are discussed. The language-health link is elaborated in terms of explanatory models; how language is used in medical encounters; and power, dominance and resistance relationships. It is also shown how considerations of place enhance…
Developing socio-spatial knowledge networks
Hindu Varanasi
Representations of Hindu faith in the built environment and pilgrim activities in the city of Varanasi, India, are explored through an analysis of the sacred geography of the place, of pilgrim travel to the city and activities within it, and of the act of crossing over from life to death through cremation. The roles of reconciling what seem to be paradoxes or contradictions and of the transcendence of geographical scale in reinforcing faith are a…
The wineglass model: Tracking the Locational Histories of Health Professionals
What is Rural? A Focus on Urban Influence Codes
Classification of U.S. counties into metropolitan and nonmetropolitan masks a high degree of variation in population size, density, and relationship between urban and rural areas. This article reviews the urban influence county coding system and illustrates how it applies to U.S. counties. The urban influence codes can be useful for analysis of rural health policy
What is Rural? Issues and Considerations
Medjugorje: Finding Peace at the Heart of Conflict
Pilgrims to the Bosnian town of Medjugorje find peace at the heart of several conflicts that involve ethnic, religious, and political tensions; the natural and the supernatural; rural and urban lifestyles; the role of the Catholic Church; the sacred and the profane; and the Virgin Mary's messages. Peace within this place is found by creating community, the Other, ritual, and myth
Disease ecology and a reformist alternative: The case of infant mortality
Geomedical Systems: Intervention and Control
Part 1 Overview: Geomedical Systems - a Perspective. Part 2 Epidemic Systems: Principles of Deterministic Modelling Modelling Alternative Modes of Transmission Space-Time Models Forecasting and Control. Part 3 Environmental Systems: Aggregative Analysis of Non-Infectious Disease: Statitistical Models for Space-Time Data Models for Planning Health Care Delivery. Part 4 Retrospect: Geomedical Systems in Perspective
Health in Rural North America: The Geography of Health Care Services and Delivery
Experts in public health, geography, and demography examine the spatial aspects of rural health care services and delivery. They pay special attention to high-risk populations children, the elderly, disabled people, the mentally ill and make policy suggestions. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. P
The Cultural Geography of Health Care Delivery
Therapeutic landscapes: Medical issues in light of the new cultural geography
The cultural geography of health care
"[The author] applies the concepts of cultural geography to health care and shows that throughout the world, in western and developing countries alike, the social sciences can inform the medical sciences and make them more effective and less expensive."--Jacket.
Ethnomedical Systems in Africa: Patterns of Traditional Medicine in Rural and Urban Kenya
Traditional Medicine in Bangkok, Thailand
Analysis of locational characteristics and accessibility of 230 Thai and Chinese traditional-medicine clinics in Bangkok, Thailand, focuses on relationships of clinics to city zones, subpopulations, and biomedical facilities. Patient distributions of eight traditional-medicine practitioners are studied in terms of their specialty, areal extent, and possible distance decay. Practitioners tend to locate in inner-city zones and in areas with a high …
Medical Geography
Therapeutic landscapes: Medical issues in light of the new cultural geography
The cultural geography of health care
"[The author] applies the concepts of cultural geography to health care and shows that throughout the world, in western and developing countries alike, the social sciences can inform the medical sciences and make them more effective and less expensive."--Jacket.
The Social Geography of Medicine and Health
Ethnomedical Systems in Africa: Patterns of Traditional Medicine in Rural and Urban Kenya
Compassionate containment? Balancing technical safety and therapy in the design of psychiatric wards
Disease ecology and a reformist alternative: The case of infant mortality
Geomedical Systems: Intervention and Control
Part 1 Overview: Geomedical Systems - a Perspective. Part 2 Epidemic Systems: Principles of Deterministic Modelling Modelling Alternative Modes of Transmission Space-Time Models Forecasting and Control. Part 3 Environmental Systems: Aggregative Analysis of Non-Infectious Disease: Statitistical Models for Space-Time Data Models for Planning Health Care Delivery. Part 4 Retrospect: Geomedical Systems in Perspective
Reconsidering the concept of therapeutic landscapes in J D Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Researchers usually examine therapeutic landscapes, spaces that have or are felt to have healing properties, in positive terms. We reconsider the therapeutic landscape notion by applying it to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye . The main character, Holden Caulfield, is sickened by his transition between childhood and adulthood, and he relies on therapeutic landscapes as an imaginary escape. Yet his therapeutic landscapes are oversimplified …
A spatial analysis of county-level variation in hospitalization rates for low back problems in North Carolina
Developing socio-spatial knowledge networks
Medjugorje: Finding Peace at the Heart of Conflict
Pilgrims to the Bosnian town of Medjugorje find peace at the heart of several conflicts that involve ethnic, religious, and political tensions; the natural and the supernatural; rural and urban lifestyles; the role of the Catholic Church; the sacred and the profane; and the Virgin Mary's messages. Peace within this place is found by creating community, the Other, ritual, and myth
The place of chiropractors in health care delivery: A case study of north Carolina
Traditional Medicine in Bangkok, Thailand
Analysis of locational characteristics and accessibility of 230 Thai and Chinese traditional-medicine clinics in Bangkok, Thailand, focuses on relationships of clinics to city zones, subpopulations, and biomedical facilities. Patient distributions of eight traditional-medicine practitioners are studied in terms of their specialty, areal extent, and possible distance decay. Practitioners tend to locate in inner-city zones and in areas with a high …
Diabetes meanings a mong those without diabetes: Explanatory models of immigrant Latinos in rural North Carolina
The wineglass model: Tracking the Locational Histories of Health Professionals
Hindu Varanasi
Representations of Hindu faith in the built environment and pilgrim activities in the city of Varanasi, India, are explored through an analysis of the sacred geography of the place, of pilgrim travel to the city and activities within it, and of the act of crossing over from life to death through cremation. The roles of reconciling what seem to be paradoxes or contradictions and of the transcendence of geographical scale in reinforcing faith are a…
A categorical data analysis of contacts with the family health clinic, Calabar, Nigeria
Geographical patterns of heart disease in the Northeastern United States
Client characteristics at Kissy Mental Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Morbidity measurement in household surveys in developing areas
Illness and health practitione use in Calabar, Nigeria
Spatial variations in morbidity and their relationship with community characteristics in Central Harlem health district
A categorical data analysis of contacts with the family health clinic, Calabar, Nigeria
The Social Geography of Medicine and Health
Geographical patterns of heart disease in the Northeastern United States
Client characteristics at Kissy Mental Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone
The place of chiropractors in health care delivery: A case study of north Carolina
Ethnomedical Systems in Africa: Patterns of Traditional Medicine in Rural and Urban Kenya
Traditional Medicine in Bangkok, Thailand
Analysis of locational characteristics and accessibility of 230 Thai and Chinese traditional-medicine clinics in Bangkok, Thailand, focuses on relationships of clinics to city zones, subpopulations, and biomedical facilities. Patient distributions of eight traditional-medicine practitioners are studied in terms of their specialty, areal extent, and possible distance decay. Practitioners tend to locate in inner-city zones and in areas with a high …
Medical Geography
Medical Geography
The cultural geography of health care
"[The author] applies the concepts of cultural geography to health care and shows that throughout the world, in western and developing countries alike, the social sciences can inform the medical sciences and make them more effective and less expensive."--Jacket.
The Cultural Geography of Health Care Delivery
Therapeutic landscapes: Medical issues in light of the new cultural geography
Health in Rural North America: The Geography of Health Care Services and Delivery
Experts in public health, geography, and demography examine the spatial aspects of rural health care services and delivery. They pay special attention to high-risk populations children, the elderly, disabled people, the mentally ill and make policy suggestions. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. P
Geomedical Systems: Intervention and Control
Part 1 Overview: Geomedical Systems - a Perspective. Part 2 Epidemic Systems: Principles of Deterministic Modelling Modelling Alternative Modes of Transmission Space-Time Models Forecasting and Control. Part 3 Environmental Systems: Aggregative Analysis of Non-Infectious Disease: Statitistical Models for Space-Time Data Models for Planning Health Care Delivery. Part 4 Retrospect: Geomedical Systems in Perspective
What is Rural? A Focus on Urban Influence Codes
Classification of U.S. counties into metropolitan and nonmetropolitan masks a high degree of variation in population size, density, and relationship between urban and rural areas. This article reviews the urban influence county coding system and illustrates how it applies to U.S. counties. The urban influence codes can be useful for analysis of rural health policy
What is Rural? Issues and Considerations
Medjugorje: Finding Peace at the Heart of Conflict
Pilgrims to the Bosnian town of Medjugorje find peace at the heart of several conflicts that involve ethnic, religious, and political tensions; the natural and the supernatural; rural and urban lifestyles; the role of the Catholic Church; the sacred and the profane; and the Virgin Mary's messages. Peace within this place is found by creating community, the Other, ritual, and myth
Disease ecology and a reformist alternative: The case of infant mortality
Hindu Varanasi
Representations of Hindu faith in the built environment and pilgrim activities in the city of Varanasi, India, are explored through an analysis of the sacred geography of the place, of pilgrim travel to the city and activities within it, and of the act of crossing over from life to death through cremation. The roles of reconciling what seem to be paradoxes or contradictions and of the transcendence of geographical scale in reinforcing faith are a…
The wineglass model: Tracking the Locational Histories of Health Professionals
Developing socio-spatial knowledge networks
Sõnad haigetoas. Keel, tervis ja koht
The role of place in medical encounters that involve language is examined using theoretical arguments backed by empirical studies. Links between language and place, health and place and especially language and health are discussed. The language-health link is elaborated in terms of explanatory models; how language is used in medical encounters; and power, dominance and resistance relationships. It is also shown how considerations of place enhance…
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