| CODE | GEO5013 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Place, Health and Disability | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Geography | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Much of the debates in health and disability studies are characteristically spatial and therefore the geographical aspect plays an important role in informing research. This unit aims to develop an in-depth understanding of various concepts, methods and applications in health geography. This includes the analysis of spatial distribution of meteorological, biological and cultural phenomena associated with disease, as well as social, political and economic barriers that influence the health and wellbeing of disabled people and people with chronic health conditions. Study-unit Aims: The aim of this unit is to enable students develop their knowledge, skills and competencies in order to evaluate and analyse the contemporary developments in health geography. This unit will demonstrate to students how geographical techniques can be applied in the discipline of health. It will also highlight how disability is a socio-spatial construct and how particular spaces and environments can serve to exclude disabled people from the rest of society. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - apply and discuss the contribution of geographical knowledge in relation to health and disability; - identify how geographical analysis can contribute to a greater understanding of the variations in health outcomes; - describe the wider determinants of health and disability and related inequalities from a geographical aspect. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - analyse the relationship between physical and human processes that may determine the health and shape the experiences of individuals and groups; - evaluate the various approaches available in representing health and disability-related phenomena; - examine the dynamism and plurality of places in relation to health and disability. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: MAIN TEXTS - CHOUINARD, V., HALL, E. and WILTON, R., 2010. Towards enabling geographies: 'disabled' bodies and minds in society and space. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. - CURTIS, S., 2004. Health and inequality: Geographical perspectives. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage. SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS - GATRELL, A.C. and ELLIOTT, S.J., 2014. Geographies of health: An introduction. John Wiley & Sons. - GLEESON, B., 2002. Geographies of disability. Routledge. - SOLDATIC, K., MORGAN, H. and ROULSTONE, A., 2014. Disability, spaces and places of policy exclusion. Routledge. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Seminar & Independent Study | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Maria Victoria Gauci Ritienne Gauci Bernadine Satariano |
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