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Peer reviewedGesler, Wilbert M. – Journal of Geography, 1987
This article shows how health care delivery is related to cultural or human geography. This is accomplished by describing health care delivery in terms of 12 popular themes of cultural geography. (JDH)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Geography, Medical Services, Primary Health Care
Peer reviewedGesler, Wilbert M.; Cromartie, John B. – Journal of Geography, 1985
Classroom activities that geography instructors can use to help students analyze two aspects of a health care system--the amount of disease present and the use of facilities to help cure disease--are suggested. The spatial patterns of morbidity and hospital utilization patterns in Central Harlem are used as examples. (RM)
Descriptors: Diseases, Geography Instruction, Health, Health Facilities
Peer reviewedSkelly, Anne H.; Arcury, Thomas A.; Gesler, Wilbert M.; Cravey, Altha J.; Dougherty, Molly C.; Washburn, Sarah A.; Nash, Sally – Research in Nursing & Health, 2002
A new theory of geographical analysis--sociospatial knowledge networks--provides a framework for understanding the social and spatial locations of a community's health knowledge and beliefs. This theory is guiding an ethnographic study of health beliefs, knowledge, and knowledge networks in a diverse rural community at high risk for type-2…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Diabetes, Diffusion (Communication), Health Education
