Call for papers
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2017, Boston, MA,
April 5-9
Session title: Health and place across the life course
Session organisers: Niamh K Shortt and Jamie Pearce, Centre for Research
on Environment, Society & Health, University of Edinburgh.
Life course research has been instrumental in establishing that social,
economic and cultural factors can influence health in later life either
through, for example, an accumulation of effects or through critical
periods. There has however been little work by health geographers that
has considered how factors that are rooted in place accumulate to
influence health and wellbeing through the life course. Reasons for this
may include the lack of readily available historical environmental data
and the challenges that their collection pose. The absence of such
research is problematic because it is likely to restrict our
understanding of the ways in which places matter for health, including:
the accumulative effects of place over the life course; the critical
periods in people’s lives when places are particularly pertinent for
health and wellbeing; and, for quantitative work, identifying causal
relationships.
This session calls for research papers that incorporate environmental
and/or social life course perspectives in order to answer these critical
questions. We welcome both empirical (quantitative or qualitative) and
theoretical papers. We particularly welcome papers that consider the
challenges of merging historical and contemporary data in health and
place research. Abstracts (maximum of 250 words) should be submitted to
Niamh Shortt [log in to unmask] by September 30th 2016.
All accepted participants will be required to register and submit your
abstract to the AAG following the AAG guidelines
http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/register and to send your PIN number
to [log in to unmask] by October 27, 2016.
Best wishes
Niamh
Niamh K Shortt
Reader in Health Geography
Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Health
School of Geosciences
Drummond Street
University of Edinburgh
EH8 9XP
Tel: 0131 6517130
www.cresh.org.uk
Working days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (Monday and Tuesday
until 14:30)
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