ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to present various perspectives on geographies of health and development. First, accounts of development and articulation of alternative approaches to development post–World War II is presented. Post-development is explored as a critique of, and alternative to, development. The chapter explores the links between geographies of health and developments and presents anticipated future research directions. Initial work on basic needs spearheaded by the International Labor Organization in the 1970s helped lay the foundation for the human-development approach to development. This approach stressed the importance of creating social and economic opportunities for all persons to realize their human potential. Development geography is based on the understanding that the causes and consequences of inequalities in quality of life and standards of living involve a combination of social, economic, historical, political and environmental factors and process at various scales.
