GeoHealth Laboratory
Welcome to the GeoHealth Laboratory
The GeoHealth Laboratory undertakes applied research in the areas of health geography, spatial epidemiology and Geographical Information Systems. In particular, work in the GeoHealth Laboratory focuses upon how the local and national contexts shape health outcomes and health inequalities.
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News and Features
Public Health Lecture Series The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good - Perceptions v epidemiology NZ case studies on the causes of birth defects
New smoking research (23rd April)
GeoHealth Lab research in the news (8th April 2012)
New staff member to GeoHealth Lab (4th April 2012)
Travel time and distance to health care partially accounts for ethnic inequalities in cervical cancer stage at diagnosis and mortality in NZ (28th February 2012)
New PhD student joins the GeoHealth Lab (28th February)
Calls to stop the spread of fast food outlets (13 February 2012)
New research on association between access to alcohol outlets and serious violent crime in NZ (13 February 2012)
Contact
simon.kingham@canterbury.ac.nz
jamie.pearce@ed.ac.uk
GeoHealth Laboratory
Department of Geography
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
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