"It's not necessarily the distance on the map...": Using place as an analytic tool to elucidate geographic issues central to rural palliative care

Health and Place

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 284-290

  Castleden, Heather ^a   Crooks, Valorie A ^b   Schuurman, Nadine ^b   Hanlon, Neil ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health care delivery; Physical place; Qualitative research; Rural idyllic; Rural palliative care; Social emotional place

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA;

ARTICLE; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 73049116123     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.10.011     Document Type: Article

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