Linking the geographical, the medical and the political in analysing health care delivery systems
Rosenberg, M.W.
Social Science and Medicine 26(1): 179-186
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0277-9536 PMID: 3353750 DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(88)90057-3Document Number: 575577
The models and methodologies used by medical geographers for analysing health care delivery systems are critically reviewed. As a result, it is argued that an intellectual cul-de-sac has been reached because of the lack of linkage in these models and methodologies that explicitly recognize the socio-cultural and political-economic influences in the environment, where the health care delivery system under study exists. Using the example of abortion services in Canada in general, and Ontario specifically for illustrative purposes, a general model for linking the geographical, the medical and the political aspects of health care delivery is proposed.