Geographies of Health and Development

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'In addition to being a valuable resource for both graduate and undergraduate students in global health, this book will be a great resource for trans-disciplinary researchers and professionals who want to understand the inter-linkages between health geography and development, broadly conceived. It offers a fresh and interdisciplinary perspective on the complex and dialectic relationship between health and development through its interesting use of locally derived case studies.' Ezekiel Kalipeni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 'Globalization may lead to adaptation development initiatives despite the potential of widening health disparities. Isaac Luginaah and Rachel Bezner Kerr's timely book examines the spatially varying contexts of poor health and inequitable development initiatives through case studies from around the world and the lens of health geographers. Future directions offer a paradigm shift in global to local development for academics and professionals engaged in research and practice.' Sue C. Grady, Michigan State University, USA 'This exciting and important book illuminates the close interconnections between global and local health inequalities and economic development processes in our increasingly interdependent and globalized world. Grounded case studies from across the globe reveal how people's health and well-being are bound up with a shifting matrix of place-based vulnerabilities that reflect broader political, socio-economic and environmental transformations. The book's strong multidisciplinary perspective and attention to public health policy implications and issues of equity and social justice make it essential reading for researchers and policy-makers in global public health, health geography, and development studies.' Sara McLafferty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 'This book provides an overview of health geography, the sub-field of human geography that applies to medicine and health. The cases a (...) "it does offer a smorgasbord of locations, socio-cultural contexts and health issues that speak to the rich interplay between health, development, space and place. It is, overall, a stimulating collection of studies, with the geographic framing providing a new prism for analysis and understanding." - Assoc. Prof. Peter Hill Global Health Systems, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland