Main description:

Although health equity and diversity-focussed research has begun to gain momentum, there is still a paucity of research from health geographers that explicitly explores how geographic factors, such as place, space, scale, community, and location, inform multiple axes of difference. Such axes can include residential location, age, sex, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, religion, socio-economic status, marital status, sexual orientation, education level, and immigration status. Specifically focussing on Canada's rapidly changing society, which is becoming increasingly pluralized and diverse, this book examines the place-health-diversity intersection in this national context. Health geographers are well positioned to offer a valuable contribution to diversity-focussed research because place is inextricably linked to differential experiences of health. For example, access to health care and health promoting services and resources is largely influenced by where one is physically and socially situated within the web of diversity. Furthermore, applying geographic concepts like place, in both the physical and social sense, allows researchers to explore multiple axes of difference simultaneously. Such geographic perspectives, as presented in this book, offer new insights into what makes diverse people, in diverse places, with access to diverse resources (un)healthy in different ways in Canada and beyond.

Contents:

1 Place, Health, and Diversity in Canada

Melissa D. Giesbrecht, Valorie A. Crooks, and Jeffrey Morgan

2 Frameworks, Lenses, and Tools: Approaches to Conducting Diversity-Based Health Geography Research

Melissa D. Giesbrecht, Valorie A. Crooks, and Jeffrey Morgan

3 From Embedded In Place-to Marginalized Out-and Back Again: Indigenous Peoples' Experience of Health in Canada

Heather Castleden, Debbie Martin, and Diana Lewis

4 Exploring the Intersections Between Violence, Place, and Mental Health in the Lives of Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People in Canada

Cindy Holmes

5 "I'm a Better Person When I'm Working": Supportive Workplaces, Mental Illness, and Recovery

Joshua Evans and Robert Wilton

6 Spaces and Places: Engaging a Mixed-Methods Approach for Exploring the Multiple Geographies of Pedestrian Injury

Jonathan Cinnamon and Daniel Z. Sui

7 Counter-Mapping Inner City "Deprivation" in Winnipeg, Canada

Jeffrey R. Masuda and Emily Skinner

8 When is Helping Hurting? Understanding and Challenging the (Re)Production of Dominance in Narratives of Health, Place, and Difference in Hamilton, Ontario

Madelaine C. Cahuas, Mannat Malik, and Sarah Wakefield

9 Constructing the Liberal Health-care Consumer Online: A Content Analysis of Canadian Medical Tourism and Harm Reduction Service Provider Websites

Cristina Temenos and Rory Johnston

10 Lived Experience in Context: The Diverse Interplay between Women Living with Fibromyalgia and Canada's Health Care System

Valorie A. Crooks

11 Aging, Gender, and "Triple Jeopardy" Through the Life Course

Rachel V. Herron and Mark W. Rosenberg

12 Does the Compassionate Care Benefit Adequately Support Vietnamese-Canadian Family Caregivers? A Diversity Analysis

Irene D. Lum and Allison H. Williams

13 Conclusion: Ways Ahead in Diversity-Based Health Geography Research

Valorie A. Crooks and Melissa D. Giesbrecht