Contemporary Research on the Geographies of Health and Healthcare: Organized and sponsored by Geography of Health and Healthcare Study Group

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Title: Contemporary Research on the Geographies of Health and Healthcare: Organized and sponsored by Geography of Health and Healthcare Study Group

Description: Canadian medical and health geographers continue to contribute to burgeoning and diverse bodies of research that connect environment(s) and human health.  The Geography of Health and Health Care Study Group is again organizing themed sessions at the 2019 CAG annual conference to bring together students, faculty and practitioners with broad research interests in medical and health geography.

We are looking for papers to contribute to themed sessions on (but not limited to):

- Access to health care

   - Geographies of Aging

   - Caregiving

   - Chronic diseases

   - Climate change and health

   - Disability

   - (Re)Emerging health risks

   - Environmental determinants of health

   - Global health

   - Health policy and practice

   - Healthcare systems and services

   - Health of marginalized populations

   - Infectious disease

   - Mental health

   - Psychosocial health

   - Quality of life and well-being

   - Technology and health

   - Theories and methods in medical/health geography

   - Spatial epidemiology

   - Other areas of geographies of health and health care

Please send your paper title, authorship, and abstracts (200 words max) to Elijah Bisung at ghhcsg@gmail.com by February 25, 2019.