Annals of the Association of American Geographers

 

Special Issue: Geographies of Health

 

Volume 102, Issue 5, September 2012

 



Introduction

 

Geographies of Health

Mei-Po Kwan

 

 

Health Inequalities

 

Ethnic Density and Maternal and Infant Health Inequalities: Bangladeshi Immigrant Women in New York City in the 1990s

Sara McLafferty, Michael Widener, Ranjana Chakrabarti, and Sue Grady

 

With Reserves: Colonial Geographies and First Nations Health

Sarah de Leeuw, Sean Maurice, Travis Holyk, Margo Greenwood, and Warner Adam

 

Smoking, Ethnic Residential Segregation and Ethnic Diversity: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis

Graham Moon, Jamie Pearce, and Ross Barnett

 

Spatial Methods to Study Local Racial Residential Segregation and Infant Health in Detroit, Michigan

Sue Grady and Joe Darden

 

Connecting the Dots between Health, Poverty and Place in Accra, Ghana

John R. Weeks, Arthur Getis, Douglas A. Stow, Allan G. Hill, David Rain, Ryan Engstrom, Justin Stoler, Christopher Lippitt, Marta Jankowska, Anna Carla Lopez-Carr, Lloyd Coulter, and Caetlin Ofiesh

 

 

Environmental Health

 

Geospatial Methodologies for Reducing Uncertainties in Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities

Nina Lam

 

Opening up the Black Box of the Body in Geographical Obesity Research: Toward a Critical Political Ecology of Fat

Julie Guthman

 

The uncertain geographic context problem

Mei-Po Kwan
(Antoinette Winklerprins handled the blind review process and made all editorial decisions for this article [including the abstract].)

 

Environmental Health as Biosecurity: “Seafood Choices,” Risk, and the Pregnant Woman as Threshold

Becky Mansfield

 

The Mutual Conditioning of Humans and Pathogens: Implications for Integrative Geographical Scholarship

Christopher A. Scott, Paul F. Robbins, Andrew C. Comrie

 

Moving Neighborhoods and Health Research Forward: Using Geographic Methods to Examine the Role of Spatial Scale in Neighborhood Effects on Health

Elisabeth Dowling Root

 

Is a Green Environment Better for Health? And if so, Why?

Peter Groenewegen, Agnes van den Berg, Jolanda Maas, Robert Verheij, and Sjerp de Vries

 

 

Spatial Analysis and Modeling of Disease

 

Integration of Spatial and Social Network Analysis in Disease Transmission Studies

Michael Emch, Elisabeth Root, Sophia Giebultowicz, Mohammad Ali, Carolina Perez-Heydrich, and Mohammad Yunus

 

Modeling Individual Vulnerability to Communicable Diseases – A Framework and Design

Ling Bian, Yuxia Huang, Liang Mao, Eunjung Lim, Gyoungju Lee, Yan Yang, Deborah Wilson, and Murray Cohen

 

Population Movement and Vector-borne Disease Transmission: Differentiating Spatial-temporal Diffusion Patterns of Commuting and Non-commuting Dengue Cases

Tzai-Hung Wen, Min-Hau Lin, and Chi-Tai Fan

 

Climate Change and Risk Projection: Dynamic Spatial Models of Tsetse and African Trypanosomiasis in Kenya

Joseph P. Messina, Nathan J. Moore, Mark H. DeVisser, Paul F. McCord, and Edward D. Walker

 

Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Cancer Risk in Epidemiologic Studies with Residential Histories

David Wheeler, Mary Ward, and Lance Waller

 

An Examination of Spatial Concentrations of Sex Exchange and Sex Exchange Norms among Drug Users in Baltimore, MD

Karin Tobin, Laura Hester, Melissa Davey-Rothwell, and Carl Latkin

 

Five Essential Properties of Disease Maps

Kirsten M. M. Beyer, Chetan Tiwari, and Gerard Rushton

 

 

Health Care Provision, Access, and Utilization 

 

Migrant Workers in Home Care: Routes, Responsibilities and Respect

Kim England and Isabel Dyck

 

Urban Politics and Mental Health: An Agenda for Health Geographic Research

Joseph Pierce, Deborah Martin, Alex Scherr, and Amelia Greiner

 

Geographic Barriers to Community-Based Psychiatric Treatment for Drug Dependent Patients

Jeremy Mennis, Gerald J. Stahler, and David A. Baron

 

Measurement, Optimization and Impact of Healthcare Accessibility: A Methodological Review

Fahui Wang

 

Spatial Heterogeneity in Cancer Control Planning and Cancer Screening Behavior

Lee R. Mobley, Tzy-Mey Kuo, Matthew Urato, Sujha Subramanian, Lisa Watson, and Luc Anselin

 

Spatial Access and Local Demand for Major Cancer Care Facilities in the United States

Xun Shi, Jennifer Alford-Teaster, Tracy Onega, and Dongmei Wang

 

Patterns of Patient Registration with Primary Healthcare in the UK National Health Service

Daniel J. Lewis and Paul A. Longley

 

 

Health and Wellbeing

 

(Un)Healthy Men, Masculinities, and the Geographies of Health

Deborah Thien, Vincent Del Casino Jr.

 

Therapeutic Imaginaries in the Caribbean: Competing approaches to HIV/AIDS Policy in Cuba and Belize

Cynthia Pope

 

Producing Contaminated Citizens: Towards a Nature-Society Geography of Health and Wellbeing in Arsenic Waterscapes

Farhana Sultana

 

 “We Pray at the Church in the Day and Visit the Sangomas at Night”: Health Discourses and Traditional Medicine in Rural South Africa

Brian King

 

 

Global/Transnational Health and Health Issues in the Global South

 

Critical Interventions in Global Health: Governmentality, Risk, and Assemblage

Tim Brown, Susan Craddock, and Alan Ingram

 

Spatial Epidemiology of HIV among Injection Drug Users in Tijuana, Mexico

Kimberly Brouwer, Melanie Rusch, John Weeks, Remedios Lozada, Alicia Vera, Carlos Magis-Rodríguez, and Steffanie Strathdee

 

Structural Violence and Women’s Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in India: Understanding Through a “Grief Model” Framework

Vandana Wadhwa

 

U.S. Migration, Translocality, and the Acceleration of the Nutrition Transition in Mexico

Fernando Riosmena, Reanne Frank, Ilana Redstone Akresh, and Rhiannon A. Kroeger

 


Book Review Essay

 

The Geography of Life and Death: Deeper, Broader, and Much More Complex

Melinda Meade




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