The Geography of Health Trends and Prospects: An open agenda

Nd, McGlashan

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8470.1988.tb00572.x

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“…Although primarily working in the disease ecology tradition, he also embraced a welfarist paradigm through studies of health care provision (McGlashan, ). A role as Australian representative on IGU Commission on Medical Geography, along with the production of significant edited monographs (McGlashan, ; McGlashan & Blunden, ) and journal review papers (McGlashan, , , ) ensured that McGlashan arguably became the global face of Australian medical geography from the early 1970s although there were other Australian geographers who also contributed to the speciality.…”

Section: Beginnings: the 1980s And Beforementioning

confidence: 99%

Health geography in New Zealand and Australia: global integration or Antipodean exceptionalism?

Moon

Kearns

2019

Geographical Research

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This paper examines the hallmarks of an emergent and distinctive Australian and New Zealand health geography over the last 30 years. Building on an assessment of the early development of the sub-discipline in the two countries, a review of published work reveals the co-presence of local themes alongside connections to more global perspectives associated notably with health behaviour. Further common themes are the influence of year-round exposure to outdoor spaces and the proximity of "blue spaces" to urban centres. However, there are divergences in the evolution of the sub-discipline. A comparison of attendance at the biennial International Medical Geography Symposia (held since 1985) with publications in the journal Health & Place reveals differentially globalised characters. A steady flow of international visitors and appointments to New Zealand universities as well as more apparent connections to the wider discipline of geography contrast with more applied geospatial and public health connections in Australian health geography.

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Section: Beginnings: the 1980s And Beforementioning

confidence: 99%