Online Program

Oral

Geography matters to public health. Cancer, heart disease, stroke, and other chronic diseases vary--sometimes markedly--by nation, state, and local areas. Migrant studies have helped in understanding these differences. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and other hazard-related deaths are hard to predict at a specific location, but the more that is known regarding a region’s history of hazards, the better the predictions of where and when hazards will strike. Likewise, health is not randomly distributed in space. Healthography underscores the reality that where you live impacts your health and well-being. In this session, AJPH editors, editorial board members, and authors will bring their expertise to bear on the question of how place-based interventions and research may improve population health and advance health equity.

Session Objectives: Demonstrate how geographic methods may be rigorously utilized to improve population health and advance health equity.