Health geography in New Zealand and Australia: global integration or Antipodean exceptionalism?

Moon, Graham; Kearns, Robin

doi:10.1111/1745-5871.12336

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“…Second, over a third of the most cited papers are focussed on physical activity and its various health implications. This figure rises further if attention is extended to the wider obesity nexus (Moon and Kearns, 2019) and the presence of terms such as 'obesity', 'walkability', 'diet(ary)' and 'food'. This nexus has been a popular topic more widely amongst submissions to Health & Place for at least the past decade.…”

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“…The earlier dominance of United Kingdom authors, perhaps reflecting the foundation of the journal in that country, fell away and authors from the United States assumed predominance. Canada and New Zealand retained their authorship shares but Australia doubled its contribution reflecting strong Australian involvement with the growth of research on the obesity nexus (Moon and Kearns, 2019). The remaining tabulated contributor nations point to a strong European contribution and the emergence of China as a research power.…”

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Twenty-five years of Health & Place: Citation classics, internationalism and interdisciplinarity

Moon

Pearce

2020

Health & Place

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To mark 25 years of Health & PlaceHealth & Place, we identify and appraise some key contributions to the journal over this period. We use citation data to identify 'classics' from the journal's back catalogue. We also examine trends in the international reach and disciplinary homes of our authors. We show that there has been a near 7-fold increase in the number of published papers between the early and most recent years of the journal and that the journal's citation levels are amongst the top 2% of social science journals. Amongst the most cited papers, some clear themes are evident such as physical activity, diet/food, obesity and topics relating to greenspace. The profile of the journal's authors is becoming more internationally diverse, represents a broader range of disciplines, and increasingly demonstrating cross/interdisciplinary ways of working. Although Anglophone countries have led the way, there is an increasing number of contributions from elsewhere including emerging economies such as China. We conclude with some comments on likely future directions for the journal including enduring concerns such as greenspace, obesity, diet and unhealthy commodities (alcohol, tobacco, ultra-processed food) as well as more recent directions including planetary health, longitudinal and lifecourse analyses, and the opportunities (and challenges) of big data and machine learning. Whatever the thematic concerns of the papers over next 25 years, we will continue to welcome outstanding research that is concerned with the importance place makes to health.

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Twenty-five years of Health & Place: Citation classics, internationalism and interdisciplinarity

Moon

Pearce

2020

Health & Place

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“…Exceptions were the Netherlands, which largely disappeared by the 1996 meeting but reappeared with the 2015 meeting, and New Zealand. That the New Zealand presence is considerably stronger than that from Australia may have resulted in part from some New Zealand health and medical geographers undertaking postgraduate training in North American or UK universities (Moon & Kearns, ).…”

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Presenting health and medical geography: People, places, and change

Moon

Sabel

2019

Geographical Journal

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Assessments of the development of geography as a discipline, and studies of sub‐disciplinary development within geography, have generally focused on the subject matter under study. Consideration has concentrated on topics, theories, methods, and paradigm shifts identified by analyses of published literature. There has been rather less interest in the spatialisation of the practice and performance of the discipline by people and institutions (though there have been exceptions) and equally little attention to the evidence provided by geographical conferences. We address these lacunae in current knowledge through a quantitative study of changing disciplinary endeavour in health geography as evidenced by participation in the International Medical Geography Symposia. For 35 years this biennial meeting has been the flagship conference for health and medical geographers. We have obtained, reviewed, and coded the proceedings of all 17 symposia, analysing the submitted papers by location of symposia, lead authorship, affiliation, and country of authorship. We investigate the globalisation of the sub‐discipline and changes in key institutional involvement. Novel network analysis methods are used to identify changing linkages between research centres. What emerges is a complex sub‐discipline driven by the changing neoliberal context of higher education and marked by both continuities and discontinuities in its practitioner networks.

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“…However, the importance of quality and fit-for-purpose outdoor areas and courtyards for mental health service user health and recovery is not evident in their design. Much research has identified the link between natural light and outdoor spaces as therapeutic and rehabilitative [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ]. However, although access to outdoor spaces should be established as an imperative for acute mental health facilities, many new wards are still built without direct access to external spaces, even in countries such as the UK or the US [ 2 ].…”

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The Role of Courtyards within Acute Mental Health Wards: Designing with Recovery in Mind

McIntosh

Marques

Jenkin

2022

IJERPH

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The role of courtyards and other outdoor spaces in the recovery of acute mental healthcare users has been gaining international appreciation and recognition. However, the physical properties and conditions necessary for therapeutic and rehabilitative engagement remain to be clearly established. This paper contributes to that knowledge by triangulating evidence from the literature, exemplar case studies of good practice and first-hand accounts of the experiences of staff and service users from four acute mental health facilities. The findings are then aligned with a well-established recovery framework (CHIMES) in light of existing landscape architecture knowledge. Within the complexity of varied mental health environments, this work establishes landscape architectural design requirements and qualities essential for recovery. Rather than adopting a prescriptive quantitative approach setting out areas, numbers of elements, etc., the proposed framework recommends a performance-based model and the creation of a cohesive network of microspaces that mesh into a design of outdoor areas. In this way, design details, materials, vegetation and the variety of spaces can be modified to suit service user population demographics and site-specific needs.

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Health geography in New Zealand and Australia: global integration or Antipodean exceptionalism?

Cited by 9 publications

References 114 publications

Twenty-five years of Health & Place: Citation classics, internationalism and interdisciplinarity

Twenty-five years of Health & Place: Citation classics, internationalism and interdisciplinarity

Presenting health and medical geography: People, places, and change

The Role of Courtyards within Acute Mental Health Wards: Designing with Recovery in Mind

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