Background Medical tourism involves patients intentionally leaving their home country to
access non-emergency health care services abroad. Growth in the popularity of this practice …

This paper explores different conceptual and policy spaces of wellbeing. The increasing use
of wellbeing in contemporary health debates affords geographers of health new arena in …

The visible landscape is believed to affect human beings in many ways, including aesthetic
appreciation and health and well-being. The aim of this paper is to analyse the range of …

Drawing from research on therapeutic landscapes and relationships between environment,
health and wellbeing, we propose the idea of 'healthy blue space'as an important new …

The'punitive turn'has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state,
and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrain for exploration by geographers …

The practice of medical tourism depends on successfully informing potential patients about
procedure options, treatment facilities, tourism opportunities, travel arrangements, and …

Objective: Exposure to natural sunlight has been associated with improvement in mood,
reduced mortality among patients with cancer, and reduced length of hospitalization for …

The indoor environment of a mechanically ventilated hospital building controls infection
rates as well as influences patients' healing processes and overall medical outcomes. This …

I Introduction Over the course ofthe last 10 years, the prac-tice of medical geography has
undergone a significant transformation as many have taken on board Kearns'(1993) appeal …

There is a strong case today for a specific focus on mental public health and its relation to
social and physical environments. From a public health perspective, we now appreciate the …