Place, Health, and Diversity
Although health equity and diversity-focussed research has begun to gain momentum, there is still a paucity of research from health geographers that explicitly explores how geographic factors, such as place, space, scale, community, and location, inform multiple axes of difference. Such axes can include residential location, age, sex, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, religion, socio-economic status, marital status, sexual orientation, education level, and immigration status. Specifically focussing on Canadas rapidly changing society, which is becoming increasingly pluralized and diverse, 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. For example, access to health care and health promoting services and resources is largely influenced by where one is physically and socially situated within the web of diversity. Furthermore, 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.
Melissa D. Giesbrecht is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria, Canada.
Valorie A. Crooks is a health geographer and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Place, Health, and Diversity
Learning from the Canadian Experience
Edited by
Melissa D. Giesbrecht
University of Victoria, Canada
Valorie A. Crooks
Simon Fraser University, Canada
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Place, health, and diversity: learning from the Canadian experience / by Melissa D. Giesbrecht and Valorie A. Crooks.
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Contents
Melissa D. Giesbrecht, Valorie A. Crooks, and Jeffrey Morgan
Melissa D. Giesbrecht, Valorie A. Crooks, and Jeffrey Morgan
Heather Castleden, Debbie Martin, and Diana Lewis
Cindy Holmes
Joshua Evans and Robert Wilton
Jonathan Cinnamon and Daniel Z. Sui
Jeffrey R. Masuda and Emily Skinner
Madelaine C. Cahuas, Mannat Malik, and Sarah Wakefield
Cristina Temenos and Rory Johnston
Valorie A. Crooks
Rachel V. Herron and Mark W. Rosenberg
Irene D. Lum and Allison M. Williams
Valorie A. Crooks and Melissa D. Giesbrecht
Madelaine C. Cahuas, MA is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography and Program in Planning at the University of Toronto, Canada, and was recently awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral fellowship. Her research has examined how complex power relations are navigated when marginalized community members, non-profit organizations and local governments work together to address health inequities. Her doctoral research focuses on the challenges and opportunities that racialized migrant communities face when engaging in environmental health justice activism, both in and beyond the non-profit sector. She is committed to conducting collaborative and community-based research that supports the equity-focused goals of the community groups and organizations with which she is working.
Heather Castleden, PhD is a white settler scholar, health geographer and associate professor jointly appointed to the Departments of Geography and Public Health Sciences at Queens University, Canada, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Reconciling Relations for Health, Environments, and Communities. Her scholarship focuses on applying both Indigenous and Western approaches to social, environmental, and health inquiries. She is a recognized leader in community-based participatory Indigenous research, having been awarded the Julian Szeicz Award for significant achievement in 2010, and for her recent guest co-editing (with Monica Mulrennan and Anne Godlewska) of a special issue of The Canadian Geographer in 2012 in this area. She has published widely, is regularly sought for peer review, and serves on the advisory board for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Aboriginal Peoples Health.
Jonathan Cinnamon, PhD is a lecturer in human geography at the University of Exeter, UK. His PhD research on geographic injury surveillance and prevention was completed at Simon Fraser University, Canada in 2013. His research interests include injury prevention, health data ethics, health care accessibility, geographic information science, and critical geographic information systems.
Valorie A. Crooks, PhD is a health geographer and associate professor in the Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is a scholar of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies. Her research examines health services, and currently she is focused on studying emerging global health care mobilities. She has co-edited (with Gavin J. Andrews) a book,
