(Applied) geography, policy, & time: whither health and medical geography?

IF 2.2 Q2 GEOGRAPHY

SPACE AND POLITY Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI:10.1080/13562576.2022.2098649

A. Planey, Sandy Wong, Donald Planey, Michelle Ko

引用次数: 6

Abstract

ABSTRACT In this provocation, we discuss the potential for health/medical geography to contribute to a policy-relevant geographical research agenda that remains attentive to social theory debates. We illustrate the importance of time as a social determinant of health, through the case study of racial/ethnic inequities in spatial access to acute hospitals in the U.S. South region amid rural hospital closures, conversions, and mergers, which have decreased the supply of hospitals since 1990. In sum, racial disparities in spatial access were most pronounced for travel distances/times to the nearest alternative hospital, underscoring the importance of both temporal and spatial equity.

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(应用)地理学、政策与时间:健康与医学地理学何去何从?

在这篇文章中，我们讨论了健康/医学地理学为政策相关的地理学研究议程做出贡献的潜力，这些议程仍然关注社会理论辩论。我们说明了时间作为健康的社会决定因素的重要性，通过对美国南部地区农村医院关闭、转换和合并期间急诊医院空间准入的种族/民族不平等的案例研究，这些都减少了1990年以来医院的供应。总而言之，在前往最近的替代医院的旅行距离/时间方面，空间可及性方面的种族差异最为明显，强调了时间和空间公平的重要性。

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SPACE AND POLITY GEOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

4.10

自引率

4.20%

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期刊介绍： Space & Polity is a fully refereed scholarly international journal devoted to the theoretical and empirical understanding of the changing relationships between the state, and regional and local forms of governance. The journal provides a forum aimed particularly at bringing together social scientists currently working in a variety of disciplines, including geography, political science, sociology, economics, anthropology and development studies and who have a common interest in the relationships between space, place and politics in less developed as well as the advanced economies.