Health geographies I
Complexity theory and human health
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11949032 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Curti (0000-0003-4982-373X, corresponding author), Sarah Curtis (0000-0002-2569-3304, Durham University), Mylène Riva (0000-0001-7979-4445, Durham University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215-223 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Progress in Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0309132509336026 |
| OpenAlex | W2001254207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 56 |
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 and recursive networks of relationships anticipated by complexity theory, future research will be required to go further in breaking down the divisions that are often assumed between research using different types of empirical methods. We comment on the potential to do this by means of advanced approaches to statistical and spatial modelling and by giving greater attention to the complementarity between these methods and qualitative techniques. We also discuss the emphasis in these examples on research which adopts an interdisciplinary strategy. Our conclusions refer forward to our companion report, which focuses more on studies of geographies of health care and health policy, emphasizing that complexity theory applied to health systems underlines the connections between health, health care and health policy
Biology · Complementarity (molecular biology · Complexity science · Data science · Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Health care · Health geography · International health · Management science · Order (exchange · Perspective (graphical · Positive economics · Sociology · Computer Science · Health disparities and outcomes · Historical and modern epidemiology studies · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Artificial Intelligence · Health Policy
Health institutional dynamics in the management of malaria and bilharzia in Zimbabwe in the advent of climate change
Integrating Spatial and Non-Spatial Dimensions to Evaluate Access to Rural Primary Healthcare Service
Health geographies II
Using complexity theory to analyse the organisational response to resurgent tuberculosis across London
Wellbeing, space and society
New theoretical terrains in geographies of wellbeing
The Impact of Health Geography on Public Health Research, Policy, and Practice in Canada
Challenges to interdisciplinary training for junior space, place and health researchers
Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems
Determining the effects of therapeutic clowning on nurses in a children's rehabilitation hospital
The complexity of social participation and its variable effects on the health and wellbeing of people living in deprived Maltese neighborhoods
Geography of medical care
Back to my old self and life restarting
Cool aid? Health, wellbeing and place in the work of Bono and U2
Displacement and tuberculosis
Health geography II
Health-environment futures
Crossing the qualitative-quantitative chasm I
Infectious addictions
The implications of environmental epigenetics
What about the workers? The missing geographies of health care
Breaking through the epistemic impasse
Life course of place
With Reserves
Making the case for qualitative comparative analysis in geographical research
Arguments in Health Geography
Too Much Food and Too Little Sidewalk? Problematizing the Obesogenic Environment Thesis
Complexity and Uncertainty in Geography of Health Research
Global Health, Geographical Contingency, and Contingent Geographies
Today and tomorrow
Examining the differential association between self-rated health and area deprivation among white British and ethnic minority people in England
Changing labour market conditions during the 'great recession' and mental health in Scotland 2007-2011
The 'taking place' of health and wellbeing
Ethnic density and area deprivation
Creating the right therapy vibe
Complexity
Geographically weighted Poisson regression for disease association mapping
A socio-ecological autopsy of the E. coli O157
Simplifying complexity
Neighbourhood variations in child accidents and related child and maternal characteristics
Pokies and poverty
Teenage pregnancy—New tools to support local health campaigns
Modifiable neighbourhood units, zone design and residents’ perceptions
The political ecology of lead poisoning in eastern North Carolina
Geographies of Care
Progress in Human Geography
Health geographies II
Next steps in understanding the multilevel determinants of health
Health, science, and complexity
Persistent Clusters of Mortality in the United States
Preliminary Evidence for an Emerging Nonmetropolitan Mortality Penalty in the United States
Complexity science and human geography
Micro‐level analysis of childhood obesity, diet, physical activity, residential socioeconomic and social capital variables
The New Science and the Old
Area effects on health variation over the life-course
Individual factors explain neighbourhood variations in accidents to children under 5 years of age
Complexity Theory, Systems Theory, and Multiple Intersecting Social Inequalities
Complexity and post-modernism
Zone design for environment and health studies using pre-aggregated data
Space, Place, and Complexity Science
Does health-selective migration following diagnosis strengthen the relationship between Type 2 diabetes and deprivation
Complexity Theory in the Study of Space and Place
Complexity Theory as a Link between Space and Place
Locality deprivation and Type 2 diabetes incidence
Complexity and reflexivity
Everyday health histories and the making of place
Actor modelling and its contribution to the development of integrative strategies for management of pharmaceuticals in drinking water
Does migration exaggerate the relationship between deprivation and limiting long-term illness? A Scottish analysis
Geography, ecology and emerging infectious diseases
Complexity theory and geographies of health
Neighbourhood effects on health
Understanding and representing 'place' in health research
Loop analysis of causal feedback in epidemiology
Towards a geography of fitness
Household and neighbourhood risks for injury to 5-14 year old children
Temporal changes in the spatial pattern of disease rates incorporating known risk factors
Inhuman/Nonhuman/Human
The Place of Complexity
Jumping off and being careful
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |