Sarah Curtis

TL;DR: It is argued that research in place and health should avoid the false dualism of context and composition by recognising that there is a mutually reinforcing and reciprocal relationship between people and place.

TL;DR: The value of a framework suggested by Miles and Huberman is explored, to evaluate the sampling strategies employed in three examples of research by the authors, and how far the criteria Miles andHuberman suggest seem helpful for planning 'sample' selection in qualitative research.

TL;DR: Different users of public spaces attain a sense of well- being for different reasons: the paper calls for policy approaches in which the social and therapeutic properties of a range of everyday spaces are more widely recognised and nurtured.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider how ideas and evidence concerning geographical health variation are used in discourses relating to health inequalities and conclude that while individual characteristics are very important for the health inequalities which are observed between people, their geographical setting also has some significance.

TL;DR: Suggesting that all four goals demand careful consideration of the real and imagined spatiality of hospital environments, the paper concludes by suggesting ways that health geographers can contribute to debates surrounding PFI hospital design.