Geographies of health

Abstract

This fourth annual special issue of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers focuses on the geographies of health, disease, and well-being. The call for abstracts was issued in early 2010, and review of full papers and revised submissions lasted from December 2010 to March 2012. Papers were sought to address social, cultural, political, environmental, theoretical, and methodological issues related to health and well-being, including topics such as access to health care, spatial disparities in health outcomes, the effect of geographic context on health outcomes, mobility and health, environmental health, development and health, and space–time modeling and analysis of health outcomes based on geographic information systems (GIS). The purpose of the annual special issues is to publish articles that reflect the range of research contributions of geographers and scholars in allied fields to contemporary issues of significant social relevance. They seek to highlight work of geographers around an important global theme and publish articles covering a wide spectrum of the discipline in a format accessible to a wide range of readers.