GLOSSARY

Places and health

H V Z Tunstall¹, M Shaw², D Dorling³

¹ Research Unit In Health, Behaviour and Change, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
² Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
³ Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor D Dorling
Department of Geography University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK; daniel.dorling{at}sheffield.ac.uk

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.

Keywords: area effects; geography; health; life course; places; glossary

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