Unravelling the extent of inequalities in health across urban and rural areas: Evidence from a national sample in England

Riva, M.; Curtis, S.; Gauvin, L.; Fagg, J.

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.11.024

All Outputs (7)

Risk Communication and Public Health. (2009)
Book
Bennett, P., Calman, K., Curtis, S., & Fishbacher-Smith, D. (Eds.). (2009). Risk Communication and Public Health. Oxford University Press

Socio-Geographic Mobility and Health Status: a longitudinal analysis using the National Population Health Survey of Canada (2009)
Journal Article
Curtis, S., Setia, M., & Quesnel-Vallee, A. (2009). Socio-Geographic Mobility and Health Status: a longitudinal analysis using the National Population Health Survey of Canada. Social Science & Medicine, 69(12), 1845-1853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.08.004

The paper reviews arguments that associations between small area socio-economic conditions and individual health are likely to vary according to the type of health condition considered. We comment on the importance of longitudinal research to examine... Read More about Socio-Geographic Mobility and Health Status: a longitudinal analysis using the National Population Health Survey of Canada.

Health geographies I: complexity theory and human health (2009)
Journal Article
Curtis, S., & Riva, M. (2010). Health geographies I: complexity theory and human health. Progress in Human Geography, 34(2), 215-223. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132509336026

This paper is the first of two linked progress reports on the application of ideas from complexity theory to health geography. In this paper we focus especially on research which seeks to explain variations in human health from a geographical perspec... Read More about Health geographies I: complexity theory and human health.

Health geographies II: complexity and health care systems and policy (2009)
Journal Article
Curtis, S., & Riva, M. (2009). Health geographies II: complexity and health care systems and policy. Progress in Human Geography, 34(4), 513-520. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132509336029

In this second of two progress reports on geographies of health, we continue a discussion framed from the perspective of complexity theory to consider research which is more particularly focused on health care and health policy. Using selected exampl... Read More about Health geographies II: complexity and health care systems and policy.

County variation in use of inpatient and ambulatory psychiatric care in New York State 1999-2001: Need and Supply influences in a structural model (2009)
Journal Article
Curtis, S., Congdon, P., Almog, M., & Ellermann, R. (2009). County variation in use of inpatient and ambulatory psychiatric care in New York State 1999-2001: Need and Supply influences in a structural model. Health & Place, 15(2), 568-577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.09.009

This study investigates the potential for ecological studies to contribute useful information on variations in service use, both across areas and across different types of psychiatric care. The analysis uses data for the 62 counties of New York State... Read More about County variation in use of inpatient and ambulatory psychiatric care in New York State 1999-2001: Need and Supply influences in a structural model.

New spaces of inpatient care for people with mental illness: a complex "rebirth" of the clinic? (2009)
Journal Article
Curtis, S., Gesler, W., Priebe, S., & Francis, S. (2009). New spaces of inpatient care for people with mental illness: a complex "rebirth" of the clinic?. Health & Place, 15(1), 340-348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.06.007

This paper examines the implications for design of inpatient settings of community-based models of care and treatment of mental illness. The study draws on ideas from relational geographies and expands interpretations based on Foucault's writing. We... Read More about New spaces of inpatient care for people with mental illness: a complex "rebirth" of the clinic?.

Unravelling the extent of inequalities in health across urban and rural areas: Evidence from a national sample in England (2009)
Journal Article
Riva, M., Curtis, S., Gauvin, L., & Fagg, J. (2009). Unravelling the extent of inequalities in health across urban and rural areas: Evidence from a national sample in England. Social Science & Medicine, 68(4), 654-663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.11.024

Studies of inequalities in health between rural and urban settings have produced mixed and sometimes conflicting results, depending on the national setting of the study, the level of geographic detail used to define rural areas and the health indicat... Read More about Unravelling the extent of inequalities in health across urban and rural areas: Evidence from a national sample in England.