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  • Rural Health and Aging Research

    Theory, Methods, and Practical Applications

    by Wilbert Gesler, Donna Rabiner, Gordon Defriese ...
    Series series Society and Aging Series
    This book describes a wide-ranging set of research approaches which have been used to study the health care problems of adults living in rural areas. It shows how these approaches can be used to define health care problems, measure levels of illness and health, and evaluate health care practices. For each approach, contributors provide a theoretical background from the health care delivery ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Culture/Place/Health

    by Wilbert M. Gesler, Robin A. Kearns ...
    Series series Critical Geographies
    Culture/Place/Health is the first exploration of cultural-geographical health research for a decade, drawing on contemporary research undertaken by geographers and other social scientists to explore the links between culture, place and health. It uses a wealth of examples from societies around the world to assert the place of culture in shaping relations between health and place. It contributes to ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Healing Places

    by Wilbert M. Gesler ...
    Is there healing beyond the walls of a modern hospital? Healing Places looks at how different environments affect our physical, mental, spiritual, social, and emotional healing. It sets out four dimensions found in healing environments-natural, built, symbolic, and social-and applies these ideas to three places that achieved a lasting reputation for healing: Epidauros in Greece, Bath in England, ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Spatial Analysis, GIS and Remote Sensing

    Applications in the Health Sciences

    Edited by Donald P. Albert, Wilbert M. Gesler, Barbara Levergood ...
    This new book explores the rapidly expanding applications of spatial analysis, GIS and remote sensing in the health sciences, and medical geography. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Aging in Canada

    by Neena L. Chappell, Marcus J. Hollander ...
    Canada, like other countries, is aging. The media has reported on a "grey tsunami," a demographic change reflecting longer life expectancy and the retirement of the so-called baby boomer generation. The numbers and percentages of older adults within our population continue to increase. In 2010, 15.3 percent of Canada's population was over 65; in 2030, it will be 24.1 percent. Many commentators ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Understanding the Social World

    Research Methods for the 21st Century

    by Russell K. Schutt ...
    The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.Understanding the Social World: Research Methods for the 21st Century is a concise and accessible introduction to the process and practice of social science research. Fast-paced and ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Foucault, Health and Medicine

    Edited by Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen ...
    The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Remote Sensing and GIS Integration: Theories, Methods, and Applications

    Theory, Methods, and Applications

    by Qihao Weng ...
    Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Maximize a geographical information tool by incorporating it with up-to-date remotely sensed dataGIS is predominantly a data-handling technology, while remote sensing is a data retrieval and analysis technology. ... Read more

    $168.29 USD

  • Occupational Science

    Society, Inclusion, Participation

    Edited by Gail E. Whiteford, Clare Hocking ...
    Occupational Science: Society, Inclusion, Participation is the must have resource for occupational therapists, occupational scientists, students and researchers. The book begins with a comprehensive review of the current literature and the knowledge generated to date. Reasons for the field's limited impact are proposed, including its focus on individuals rather than groups and communities, its ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions

    by Jorge Soberón, Enrique Martínez-Meyer, Miguel Nakamura, A. Townsend Peterson, Richard G. Pearson, Robert P. Anderson, Miguel B. Araújo ...
    Series Book 49 - Monographs in Population Biology
    This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns. Problems in evolutionary ecology, macroecology, and biogeography are illuminated by this integrative view. The book focuses on correlative approaches known as ecological niche modeling, species ... Read more

    $55.49 USD

  • Urban Remote Sensing

    Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment

    Edited by Xiaojun Yang ...
    Urban Remote Sensing is designed for upper level undergraduates, graduates, researchers and practitioners, and has a clear focus on the development of remote sensing technology for monitoring, synthesis and modeling in the urban environment. It covers four major areas: the use of high-resolution satellite imagery or alternative sources of image date (such as high-resolution SAR and LIDAR) for ... Read more

    $123.95 USD

  • Urban Health and Society

    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice

    Edited by Nicholas Freudenberg, Susan Klitzman, Susan Saegert ...
    Series Book 17 - Public Health/Vulnerable Populations
    Praise for Urban Health and Society"This is a spectacular resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and students interested in improving the lives and health of individuals and families in urban settings. This book provides the most current frameworks, research, and approaches for understanding how unique features of the urban physical and social environments that shape the health of ... Read more

    $74.00 USD