The Impact of Health Geography on Public Health Research, Policy, and Practice in Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15472385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle M Vine (0009-0005-8719-450X, Brock University, corresponding author), Kathleen Mulligan (0000-0001-7249-2823, University of Toronto), Kate Mulligan (University of Toronto), Rachel Harris (0000-0001-5584-5420, Hamilton Health Sciences), Jennifer Dean (0000-0003-2642-7638, University of Waterloo) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 18 |
| Pages | 6735-6735 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph20186735 |
| PMID | 37754595 |
| OpenAlex | W4386601983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 94 |
The link between geography and health means that the places we occupy-where we are born, where we live, where we work, and where we play-have a direct impact on our health, including our experiences of health. A subdiscipline of human geography, health geography studies the relationships between our environments and the impact of factors that operate within those environments on human health. Researchers have focused on the social and physical environments, including spatial location, patterns, causes of disease and related outcomes, and health service delivery. The work of health geographers has adopted various theories and philosophies (i.e., positivism, social interactionism, structuralism) and methods to collect and analyze data (i.e., quantitative, qualitative, spatial analysis) to examine our environments and their relationship to health. The field of public health is an organized effort to promote the health of its population and prevent disease, injury, and premature death. Public health agencies and practitioners develop programs, services, and policies to promote healthy environments to support and enable health. This commentary provides an overview of the recent landscape of health geography and makes a case for how health geography is critically important to the field of public health, including examples from the field to highlight these links in practice
Geography · Health geography · Health promotion · Human geography · International health · Political science · Population health · Public health · Public relations · Social determinants of health · Social science · Sociology · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Nursing · Public Health Policies and Education · Health Policy
Towards global health equity
Pathogenic built environment? Reflections on modeling spatial determinants of health in urban settings considering the example of Covid-19 studies
Choice experiment evidence on digital participation in sanitation and health campaigns in the Citarum River basin, Indonesia
Heterogeneous effects of neighborhood renewal on mental well-being
Do Rural–Urban Differences in Social Environments Act as Barriers to Social Wellbeing? A Cross-Sectional Study
An analytical approach towards attaining leave no one behind using patterns and distributions of inequalities in antenatal and facility delivery coverage in Uttar Pradesh, India
Toward the Healthy City
Free Range Kids? Using GPS-Derived Activity Spaces to Examine Children’s Neighborhood Activity and Mobility
Income Inequality and Health
Role of physical activity in the relationship between urban green space and health
Establishing internationally accepted conceptual and operational definitions of social prescribing through expert consensus
The commercial determinants of health
Social and Structural Determinants of Health Inequities in Maternal Health
The Social Determinants of Health
Reaching for environmental health justice
What is the future of public space? Hidden stories of immigrant suburbs during a global pandemic
Inequalities in health
The role of urban and rural greenspaces in shaping immigrant wellbeing and settlement in place
We Are Drinking Diseases’
The intersection of structure and agency within charitable community food programs in Toronto, Canada, during the Covid-19 pandemic
Passionate epistemology, critical advocacy, and public health
Geography of Disparity
Examining local-level factors shaping school nutrition policy implementation in Ontario, Canada
The ‘blemish of place’
From therapeutic landscapes to healthy spaces, places and practices
What do we mean by ‘structure’ when we talk about structural influences on the social determinants of health inequalities
The political ecology of health
The place of health and the health of place
Thinking relationally about built environments and walkability
The need for the “new health geography” in epidemiologic studies of environment and health
Individual and socio-environmental determinants of overweight and obesity in Urban Canada
The political ecology of lead poisoning in eastern North Carolina
Blue space geographies
Urban design and adolescent mental health
Prioritizing Obesity in the City
Examining the Social and Built Environment Factors Influencing Children’s Independent Use of Their Neighborhoods and the Experience of Local Settings as Child-Friendly
Fostering Mobility for People Living with Dementia in Suburban Neighborhoods Through Land Use, Urban Design and Wayfinding
Health geography III
Geographies of ageing
The political ecology of disease as one new focus for medical geography
Political ecologies of health
From medical to health geography
Health geographies I
Children’s right to the city and their independent mobility
The Covid-19 pandemic and health inequalities
Are perceived neighbourhood problems associated with the likelihood of smoking
Social Determinants of Health Equity
Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children Associated With the Flint Drinking Water Crisis
A longitudinal cohort study examining determinants of overweight and obesity in adulthood
Frequently Asked Questions About Population Health Intervention Research
Examining the Capacities of Municipal Governments to Reduce Health Inequities
Rural futures? Mapping newcomers' hopes about potential resettlement in Canadian rural areas
Exposure, access, and inequities
Health geography in Canada
Structural Racism and Health Disparities
Closing the gap in a generation
Shifting gears on sustainable transport transitions
Place and Health
Body Size and the Built Environment
Arguments in Health Geography
Food deserts or food swamps
Place effects on health
Therapeutic landscapes of home
Disease ecology and a reformist alternative
Moving beyond walkability
Examining the relationship between social support availability, urban center size, and self-perceived mental health of recent immigrants to Canada
Social isolation and loneliness in later life
Weighing the importance of neighbourhood
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |