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Eric D. Carter

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Carter_Geografia_Medica_Pys_2016_Con_Citas.Pdf, Eric D. Carter Dec 2015

Carter_Geografia_Medica_Pys_2016_Con_Citas.Pdf, Eric D. Carter

Eric D. Carter

El objetivo de esta nota consiste en reseñar la evolución del campo de la
geografía médica, sobre todo en el ámbito de la producción científica del
mundo angloparlante. Se identifican vertientes principales que sirven para
orientar la evolución de la geografía médica, y se detalla la diversificación
reciente de los temas, bases teóricas y orientaciones metodológicas de este
campo. Además, se propone que la geografía médica es beneficiaria de ciertos
cambios ajenos del ámbito de la geografía académica, sobre todo tendencias
favorables en la formación de profesionales del sector salud y en las políticas
de salud pública a nivel internacional. …

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Making The Blue Zones: Neoliberalism And Nudges In Public Health Promotion, Eric Carter Apr 2015

Making The Blue Zones: Neoliberalism And Nudges In Public Health Promotion, Eric Carter

Eric D. Carter

This paper evaluates the ideological and political origins of a place-based and commercial health promotion effort, the Blue Zones Project (BZP), launched in Iowa in 2011. Through critical discourse analysis, I argue that the BZP does reflect a neoliberalization of public health, but as an "actually existing neoliberalism" it emerges from a specific policy context, including dramatic health sector policy changes due to the national Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare; a media discourse of health crisis for an aging Midwestern population; and an effort to refashion Iowa cities as sites of healthy and active living, to retain and …

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