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

Autor:	Planey, Arrianna Marie, Wong, Sandy, Planey, Donald A., Ko, Michelle J.
Předmět:	MEDICAL geography HOSPITAL closures SOCIAL determinants of health RURAL hospitals PROVOCATION tests (Medicine) RACIAL inequality
Zdroj:	Space & Polity; Aug2022, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p115-127, 13p
Abstrakt:	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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze:	Complementary Index
Externí odkaz:	Zobrazit plný text záznamu Plný text ve formátu HTML
Nepřihlášeným uživatelům se plný text nezobrazuje	K zobrazení výsledku je třeba se přihlásit.