Conceptualizing the healthscape: Contributions of time geography, location technologies and spatial ecology to place and health research

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 668-676

  Rainham, Daniel ^a   McDowell, Ian ^b   Krewski, Daniel ^b   Sawada, Mike ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agency; Healthscape; Location aware technology; Neighbourhood effects; Place; Space; Time geography

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HEALTH CARE; MODELING; RESEARCH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POLICY; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; TIME;

EID: 75849159701     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.10.035     Document Type: Article

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