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Panel Discussion: Panel Session 1
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Panel Discussion: Panel Session 2
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Panel Discussion: Panel Session 3
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Panel Discussion: Panel Session 4
- Yolanda McDonald (Vanderbilt University)
Our discipline recognizes the vast influence that the built environment can have on public health and seeks to improve this understanding, both for health and urban planning policy. Such built environment domains include access to health facilities, (un)healthy food outlets, physical activity facilities, and active/passive transport availability, as well as exposure to burdensome issues such...
Health geographers have been shifting the allied fields of human geography, epidemiology, and public health towards research designs that account for both space and time. Longitudinal designs are recognized as superior to cross-sectional designs given their ability to infer casual relationships and fore/backcast the role of socio-environmental determinants of health outcomes. While traditional...
Over the past decade, knowledge translation (KT) has become an important component of health research in geography and beyond. Despite collective agreement about the importance of bridging knowledge to action in health geography research, gaps remain regarding how to do KT, and how KT can be leveraged to combat health inequities. This panel session will discuss KT research and activity with a...
Health and medical geography are critical lenses to understand the spatial dimensions of health disparities and inequities to inform evidence-based policy interventions. This panel brings together voices representative of community organizations, academia, and government agencies to explore the intersections of practice and policy within the realm of health geography. The panelists will share...
