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Mobilities and Health

Mobilities and Health

ByAnthony C. Gatrell
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 22 July 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315595702
Pages 248 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315595702
SubjectsGeography, Health and Social Care, Social Sciences
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Gatrell, A. (2011). Mobilities and Health. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315595702

Looking at health and health care in a new way, this book examines health risks and benefits as encountered 'on the move' rather than focusing on the risks and benefits incurred at fixed locations. The provision and utilization of health care is also investigated, as produced/delivered and consumed/accessed in mobile settings. Engaging with the contemporary concern with 'mobilities' this book covers many forms of movement and flow, including movements of people, disease, information and health care. The issues and problems which are considered - whether re-emerging infections, displaced persons, or the 'risks' of globalised travel - are of current and ongoing concern. Drawing on three main disciplines, geography, sociology, and epidemiology, author Tony Gatrell makes strong connections between these areas of inquiry, drawing on (for example) social theorising, geographical concepts, and epidemiological methods and data. The book will be of interest to the growing number of geographers working on the geography of health, along with social scientists involved in the mobilities 'turn'. More broadly, as issues of global public health that invariably involve the movements of people, goods, viruses and information continue to hit the headlines, the book is both timely and of policy relevance.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|22 pages
Mobilising Concepts
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part |2 pages
Part 1: Travel
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chapter 2|18 pages
Walking and Cycling
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chapter 3|18 pages
Four Wheels Good?
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chapter 4|18 pages
Trains, and Boats and Planes
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chapter 5|12 pages
Vacations and the Tourist
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part |2 pages
Part 2: Migration
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chapter 6|14 pages
The Displaced and the Dispossessed
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chapter 7|12 pages
Migration, Health and Well-being
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part |2 pages
Part 3: Diffusion
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chapter 8|12 pages
Disease Spread in First Modernity
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chapter 9|20 pages
Disease Spread in Second Modernity: Emerging and Re-emerging
ByDiseases
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part |2 pages
Part 4: Communication and Care
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chapter 10|14 pages
Mobilities of Information
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chapter 11|18 pages
Mobilities of Carers and Care
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chapter 12|6 pages
Conclusions: Emerging Themes for Mobilities and Health
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