This revised second edition highlights the ways in which health maybe studied from geographical perspectives, setting out the debatesand reviewing the evidence that links health outcomes with socialand physical environments.

• Introduces the reader to relevant theoretical perspectives,methodologies, and research
  



• Provides new examples from a range of geographicalsettings
  



• Provides an extensive revision to the first edition,emphasizing contemporary concerns such as globalization,neighbourhood health, and obesity
  



• Pays greater attention to the US health care system, mentalhealth, health of older adults, disease ecology and re-emergingdiseases, health in developing world, and children s andwomen s health