Places and Health

Overview

Journal J Epidemiol Community Health

Specialty Health Services

Date 2003 Dec 20

PMID 14684719

Citations 29

Authors

H V Z Tunstall

M Shaw

D Dorling

Affiliations

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Abstract

This glossary aims to provide readers with some key conceptual tools with which to address the issue of place and health; it is hoped that it will provoke thought and debate on the range of ways that places are connected to health.

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