Description

Improving health and health care services are government priorities worldwide. The focus of Geohealth is to explore the dynamic connections between people, their health and well-being and the changing physical and social environments in (peri-) urban or larger geographic areas. Central questions are: where and how can we best intervene to mitigate health risks, reduce health inequalities, or improve health services delivery.

Objectives and Methodology

Your Geohealth research can take different directions. A first line of research concerns the study of access and accessibility of health services. A second direction is to study the relationship between socio-economic conditions and health status, and possibly also the link to health expenditure. A third possible line of enquiry is to focus on the relation between disease and socio-environmental risk factors. Studies can focus on a case study (based upon primary data collection or using available secondary data) but can also be methodologically oriented.

Further reading

Neutens, T. (2015) Accessibility, equity and health care: review and research directions for transport geographers, Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 43, Pages 14-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2014.12.006.

Qiu, G., Liu, X., Amiranti, A. Y., Yasini, M., Wu, T. , Amer, S. , & Jia, P. (2020). Geographic clustering and region-specific determinants of obesity in the Netherlands. Geospatial health, 15(1), 131-139. https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2020.839

Khashoggi, B.F.; Murad, A. (2020) Issues of Healthcare Planning and GIS: A Review. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf., 9, 352. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9060352