GEOG322: Geography of Health Course Handout 2016

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2 GEOG322: GEOGRAPHY OF HEALTH 2015 GEOG322 provides an introduction to the concepts and applications of health geography. We will examine the influence of physical and social environments on health, investigate inequalities in health, and explore the geographies of health systems and services. Course aims The aims of this course are to: examine what health is, how we can measure it, and how we present health data explore the impact of the physical environment including air quality, water quality and global environmental change on the health of individuals consider the types of physical and social environments that promote health examine health inequalities and their connection to the physical, social, economic and political environment Learning outcomes By the end of the course students should: Be able to critically appraise some key theoretical frameworks in the geography of health. Understand some of the ways in which health is shaped by place and environment Be aware of some of the geographical data and methods associated with the study of health and place. Course content The course content is delivered through a series of linked sections: A: Course Introduction B: Health Inequalities C: Health and the Physical Environment D: Health Care Systems and Services E: Urban Environments and Health F: Social Environments and Health G: Group presentations and Course Conclusion Mode of course delivery 36 x 1 hour lectures 5 x 2 hour labs Lectures Monday Wednesday Friday 2:00pm-3:00pm 9:00am-10:00am 1:00pm-2:00pm Labs and tutorials The times and locations of labs vary throughout the semester. Please check the teaching schedule and confirm details for each lab using My Timetable or the Course Information System. 2

3 Assessment Your learning for GEOG322 will be assessed through coursework (worth 60% in total) and a final exam (40%, date to be confirmed when the university examination timetable is published). There are three items of coursework: Coursework item Due Worth 1. Essay Fri 1 st April before 5pm 25% 2. Policy briefing paper (group presentation and individual report) Fri 3 rd June before 5pm 25% 3. Lab participation Throughout the semester 10% Assignment 1 Essay/Research Review (25%): This assignment asks you to select one disease or illness to discuss the relative importance of the physical and social environment for its incidence, with respect to the published evidence. A more detailed handout will be distributed in the first week of the course. Assignment 2 - Policy Briefing Paper (25%): The second assignment asks you to prepare a briefing paper on a current health policy issue. The briefing paper requires you to provide a critical review of the evidence with respect to a particular health policy issue and, on the basis of this evidence, to make a series of policy recommendations. This is a group project, involving an individual written report and a group presentation, both of which are assessed. A more detailed handout will be distributed at the beginning of Term 2. Submission of assignments Both assignments must be submitted electronically through Learn (no need for paper submission). This course will make use of the Turnitin software ( which enables you to review your use of sources, and to ensure you have acknowledged or referenced them appropriately. Turnitin will identify papers containing unacknowledged material from other authors or students (i.e. plagiarism), and allow you to rectify this before submission. More details of how to submit your assignments through Turnitin are available on Learn. Class Participation It is important that you participate in all aspects of GEOG322 and this includes the labs/discussion sessions. Consequently 10% of your final grade is based on participation. This is broken down as follows: Attendance/completion of labs (5%, comprised of 1% for each lab) Attendance/participation in the poster presentations (5%) 3

4 Lab Programme The lab programme is designed to follow up aspects of the course that cannot be covered in lectures. In addition to set tasks, the weekly labs will also involve you breaking up into smaller groups and discussing some of the set readings for the lectures that week. Before you come to the lab you will need to complete the readings which will already have been mentioned in lectures. It is important that you do this since it will help you understand some of the key issues in the geography of health and the relevance of a geographical perspective in understanding health problems and health policy. It will also aid you in your learning and you will gain more out the course from such a commitment. Some of the labs will also involve you working with a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, various types of data and different statistical packages. In order to fully understand the lab material, you may need to work on the lab tasks again in your own time. Course requirements To be eligible to be credited with a pass in GEOG322, you must meet the following course requirements: 1. complete the two assignments 2. satisfactorily complete all labs 3. sit the final exam Teaching staff The course is taught by: Dr. Malcolm Campbell Tel x malcolm.campbell@canterbury.ac.nz Prof. Simon Kingham Tel x simon.kingham@canterbury.ac.nz Assoc. Prof. David Conradson Tel x david.conradson@canterbury.ac.nz Dr. Angela Curl (course co-ordinator) Tel: x Angela.Curl@canterbury.ac.nz Dr. Melanie Tomintz Tel x melanie.tomintz@canterbury.ac.nz 4

5 GEOG322: Lecture Outline 2016 (no lecture 15 or 16) Course Introduction (all) 1. What s so geographical about health? (All) (set assignment 1) Health Inequalities (MC) 2. Understanding health inequalities 3. Income inequality and health: an overview 4. Life expectancy and income inequality 5. Mental health and income inequality 6. Obesity and income inequality Health and the Physical Environment (SK) 7. Environmental influences on health: an introduction 8. Assessing pollution exposure 9. Air quality, pollution and health 10. Water quality and health 11. Climate change and health 12. Sun exposure and health Health Care Systems and services (MT, AC, DC) 13. Using GIS to examine health and environment 14. Access to healthcare 15. No Lecture - EASTER 16. No Lecture EASTER 17. Health care services: Location matters / utilisation and accessibility 18. Health care services: Resource and location allocation modelling 19. Health care systems 20. Political Economy of healthcare 21. Policies & public health interventions (set assignment 2) EASTER VACATION Urban Environments and Health (AC) 22. Urban Planning and Health 23. Housing, regeneration and health 24. Transport and health 25. Physical activity and physical and mental health 26. Built environment, active travel & health 27. Food environments Social Environments and health (DC) 28. Health and social environments 29. Social connectedness and isolation 30. Ageing, care and institutional settings 31. Therapeutic landscapes 32. Mental health and space Group Presentations and Course Summary (all) 33. Pecha Kucha Presentations (5 groups) 34. Pecha Kucha Presentations (5 groups) 35. Pecha Kucha Presentations (5 groups) 36. Course Summary (All) 5

6 Teaching Schedule 2016 Mon date Teaching Week Mon Weds Fri Labs Assessment Feb 22 1 Lecture 1 (All) Lecture 2 (MC) Lecture 3 (MC) Feb 29 2 Lecture 4 (MC) Lecture 5 (MC) Lecture 6 (MC) Lab (MC) Mar 7 3 Lecture 7 (SK) Lecture 8 (SK) Lecture 9 (SK) Mar 14 4 Lecture 10 (SK) Lecture 11 (SK) Lecture 12 (SK) Lab (SK) Mar 21 5 Lecture 13 (AC) Lecture 14 (AC) EASTER Mar 28 6 EASTER Lecture 17 (MT) Lecture 18 (MT) Lab (MT) Assignment 1 due: Fri, 5pm Apr 4 7 Lecture 19 (MT) Lecture 20 (DC) Lecture 21 (AC) April April April Easter Vacation Mon 11 th April - Fri 29 th April May 2 8 Lecture 22 (AC) Lecture 23 (AC) Lecture 24 (AC) Lab (AC) May 9 9 Lecture 25 (AC) Lecture 26 (AC) Lecture 27 (AC) May Lecture 28 (DC) Lecture 29 (DC) Lecture 30 (DC) Lab (DC) Presentation. due: Fri, 9am May Lecture 31 (DC) Lecture 32 (DC) Presentations 33 May Presentations 34 Presentations 35 Lecture 36 (All) Assignment 2 due: Fri, 5pm Teaching Staff Simon Kingham (SK) Malcolm Campbell (MC) Melanie Tomintz (MT) Angela Curl (AC) David Conradson (DC) 6

7 Reading The lectures in the course only provide an introduction to key topics and debates. Consequently a very important part of your learning is to follow up on the topics discussed in lectures through independent reading and research. You are encouraged to gain a broader understanding of the geography of health by going beyond references just relevant to your assignments. As this is a 300 level course we place a high priority on the extent to which you have done additional reading and come to terms with a range of theoretical perspectives in contemporary health geography. You are expected to complete the required reading. A key reading will be set for each lecture and a number of other readings will also be recommended. Links to all set readings will be placed on Learn. What is expected of you: to be prepared to discuss the set readings in lectures and labs to spend at least 4-5 hours a week on your readings to be able to refer to these readings and demonstrate that you have read and understood them in the final exam Key Books There is no one book which covers all components of the course, but the following volumes provide good overviews of links between geography and health, and of debates and issues within medical and health geography. Gatrell A. and Elliott S. (2009). Geographies of Health. 2 nd edition, Blackwell, Oxford. Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds) (2009). International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier, Oxford. Brown, T., McLafferty, S. and Moon, G. (2010). A Companion to Health and Medical Geography. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. Other useful volumes Boyle, P. et al. (eds.) (2004). The geography of health inequalities in the developed world. Ashgate, Aldershot. Briggs D.J. Stern R. and Tinker T.L. (eds). (1999). Environmental health for all: risk assessment and risk communication for national environmental health action plans. NATO science series. Partnership sub-series 2, Environmental security; vol. 49. Cliff A.D. and Haggett P. (1998). Atlas of disease distributions: analytic approaches to epidemiological data. Blackwell, Oxford. Corvalan C., Briggs D. and Zielhuis G. (2000). Decision making in environmental health. E & FN Spon, London and New York. Cromley, E. and McLafferty, S. (2002). GIS and public Health. New York: Guilford Press. Curtis S. (2004). Health and Inequality: Geographical Perspectives. Sage Publications, London. Davis P. and Dew K. (2005). Health and society in Aotearoa New Zealand. Oxford University Press, Auckland. Dew, K. and Matheson, A. (2008). Understanding health inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand. Otago University Press, Dunedin. 7

8 Dyck I. Lewis N. and McLafferty, S. (eds), (2001). Geographies of women's health. Routledge, London. Evans R.G., Barer M.L. and Marmor T.R. (1994). Why are some people healthy and others not?. The determinants of health of populations. Aldine de Gruyter. New York. Gesler W.M. and Kearns R.A. (eds) (2002). Culture/place/health. Routledge, London. Graham H. (2000). Understanding health inequalities. Open University Press, Buckingham. Gray A. (ed). (2001). World health and disease. Open University Press, Buckingham. Hester R.E. and Harrison R.M. (1998). Air pollution and health. Royal Society of Chemistry Information Services, Cambridge. Jones K. and Moon G. (1987). Health, disease, and society: a critical medical geography. Routledge and Kegan Paul. London. Kawachi I. and Berkman L. (eds) (2003). Neighbourhoods and health. Oxford: OUP. Lake, A.A. et al. (eds). Obesogenic Environments. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. Lawson, A.B. and Williams, F. (2001). An introductory guide to disease mapping. Chichester: John Wiley. Maheswaran, R. and Craglia, M. (eds). (2004). GIS in public health practice. Boca Raton FL: CRC). Moon G. et. al. (2000). Epidemiology: an introduction. Open University Press, Buckingham. Pinch S. (1997). Worlds of Welfare: Understanding the changing geographies of social welfare provision. Routledge, London. World Meteorological Organization (1999). Weather, climate and health. WMO: Geneva. Yassi A. et. al. (2001). Basic environmental health. Oxford University Press. Oxford. Geographies of Health Series You may also wish to consult some of the interesting books which are now appearing in this series by Ashgate Publishers. Some recent titles include: Crooks, V.A. and Andrews, G.J. (eds) (2008). Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place. Milligan, C. (2009). There s No Place like Home: Place and Care in an Ageing Society. Pearce, J. and Witten, K. (eds) (2010). Geographies of Obesity. Chouinard, V. (ed) (2010). Towards Enabling Geographies: Disabled Bodies and Minds in Society and Space. Curtis, S. (2010). Space, Place and Mental Health. Journals You should make yourself familiar with some of the key geographical and physical and social science journals that health geographers write in. Some key journals are: Social Science and Medicine, Health and Place, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, International Journal of Health Services, Health Policy, Health Affairs, Health Promotion, Health Planning and Management, Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, Journal of health politics, Policy and Law, Sociology of Health and Illness 8

Health and Medical Geography (GEOG 222)

Spring 2019 Class meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:30-1:45pm Carolina Hall Room 220 Instructor: Michael Emch Email: emch@unc.edu Course Objectives Health and Medical Geography (GEOG 222) This course is