Understanding and representing 'place' in health research: a relational approach.

By S. Cummins, S. Curtis, Ana V. Diez-Roux, S. Macintyre. Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2007

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health

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In General Health Professions

1. Jason Gilliland
2. Janet E. Loebach
3. Julia R. Henly
4. Richard M. Carpiano

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1. Michael J. Mason
2. Jeremy L. Mennis
3. Richard M. Carpiano

Citations in the corpus

• Subjective Constructions of Neighborhood Boundaries: Lessons from a Qualitative Study of Four Neighborhoods (2009, background): “As Cummins et al. (2007) argue in the case of health studies, in order to understand how place affects health, researchers may have to utilize more fluid and “relational” conceptions of place (pp. 1827, 1835).”
• People, Places, and Adolescent Substance Use: Integrating Activity Space and Social Network Data for Analyzing Health Behavior (2011, background): “…the idea that space, itself, influences health is nonsensical—we must consider how characteristics of place, and not the abstract idea of location in Cartesian space, interact with the individual to produce health behaviors and outcomes (Jones and Moon 1993; Kearns 1993; Cummins et al. 2007).”
• Compositional and contextual factors associated with drug overdose deaths in the United States (2020, background): “More recently, researchers are moving away from this dichotomous perspective and, instead, are seeking to discern the collective impact of compositional and contextual factors on health outcomes.(7,11,12) This perspective has informed a variety of health behaviors, diseases, and mortality causes suc”
• Come take a walk with me: the "go-along" interview as a novel method for studying the implications of place for health and well-being. (2009, background): “…literature—as well as social sciences in general—regarding the need to examine how physical, social, and mental dimensions of place and space interact within and across time for individuals (e.g., Cummins et al., 2007; see also Lynch, 1960; Rugg, 1972; Hiss, 1990; Lefebvre, 2000; Gieryn, 2000).”
• Child-Led Tours to Uncover Children's Perceptions and Use of Neighborhood Environments (2023, background): “…deeper into the spatial context of children’s activities, and for exploring more directly the lived experience of children in their local environments (Cummins et al. 2007; Gilliland et al. 2006; McMillan 2005; Srinivasan, O’Fallon and Dearry 2003; Matthews 2003; Jackson 2003; Dannenberg et al.…”