Geographische Aspekte von Gesundheit und Versorgung

Abstract

The present thesis presents the broad subject of geographical public health and health services research. It discusses the theoretical background on why there are geographical variations in health, health behavior or health services utilization starting with aspects of social theory and explanations from a social epidemiological perspective. The influences of socio-economic inequality, environmental inequality and area deprivation are presented and discussed. It includes five single publications to this subject.