Call for Book Chapters for proposed Springer Edition on “Geographies of Health, Health Care and Wellbeing”

Within the discipline of Geography, there has been an increasing interest in health research. Traditionally, the sub discipline of geography dealing with health issues was known as „Medical Geography‟. With the changes in approaches, the „cultural turn‟ in the sub-discipline and the adoption of the salutogenic paradigm, the nomenclature „medical geography‟ is gradually getting replaced by the term „geography of health‟.This sub-discipline involves the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health and disease, their cultural production and spatial distribution and the organization and accessibility of health care. In fact geographers are well equipped to conduct health research, as they have the skills and expertise to study health in different socio-economic and environmental milieu and apply perspectives beyond the biomedical paradigm. Geographers use statistical tools like Multi-variate analysis; Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing to assess the role of space in influencing the health of individuals and communities. Likewise they apply qualitative methods to understand the perception and construction of health and disease. Concepts such as sense of place, therapeutic landscape, and experiential integration have been developed by health geographers to enhance the understanding of the influence of the environment on health. This is reflected in an increasing trend in the application of qualitative research methods and the adoption of social theories to explore and explain the complex nexus of health, health care and disease.

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Deadline for submission by 15th of April 2021 

Special Issue on Health Geography and Its Relevance for Future Public Health

Health geography analyzes health and health systems responses to health needs as complex, open, and dynamic interactions of people and the environment. In this way, health geography encourages, for example, an understanding of the health of local populations as being interconnected to and interdependent with global health. This holistic approach translates into multidisciplinary studies, drawing on concepts and methods from geography, epidemiology, the social sciences, public health, and many other disciplines. For this Special Issue, we would like to invite recent scientific contributions of health geographies to public health.
Below are some topics reflecting the scope of the Special Issue.
  • Health surveillance;
  • Health inequality;
  • Environment and health;
  • Health across borders/cross-border healthcare;
  • Methods for health geography;
  • Spatial analysis for public health;
  • Global health in the Anthropocene.
Guest Editors
​Prof. Thomas Krafft
Prof. Dr. Mark Rosenberg
Prof. Dr. Paula Santana
Guest Editors

​Paper submission deadline 15th January 2021

Special isssue on Challenges and responses to population health and urbanization in the 21st century
in Journal of Sustainability

Urbanization has significant impacts on people’s quality of life in the 21st century. The rapid process of urbanization raises the question of how individuals and the public, not-for-profit and private sectors in urban environments can make services available and accessible and meet the demands of a growing vulnerable population, especially in developing countires and megacities. There is a need to understand how regional differences in urbanization and population health, their challenges and health impacts, and people’s accessibility and utilization of public services will support planning and policy making for sustainable development in our future. This special multi-disciplinary issue calls for papers addressing these issues and others linked to public health, population aging and urbanization in geography, urban planning, policy studies, etc. It is supported by the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Health and the Environment (CHE) for the“Pre-conference on Shaping Geographies of Health, Health Care and Environment”and sessions on environment and health in the 33rd International Geographical Congress (IGC) of IGU.

Paper submission deadline 28 February 2017

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