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Political ecologies of health

Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bhk2{at}psu.edu.

	Abstract

Emerging research within health geography and related fields is attending to the social dimensions of human health. Notwithstanding these contributions, health geography has provided less rigorous attention to the role of political economy in producing disease and shaping health decision-making. Additionally, the reciprocal relationships between health and environment have been underexplored. This paper asserts that political ecology would contribute by examining the political economy of disease, interrogating health discourses, and understanding the interactions between social and environmental systems. The benefits of a political ecology of health are demonstrated through an examination of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa.

First published on July 8, 2009
Progress in Human Geography 2009, doi:10.1177/0309132509338642


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