ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part focuses explicitly on particular types of practice in health geography. It considers the influences of arts-related developments in social and cultural geography on health geography, the specific modalities of therapeutic art practices and music, and how these relate to the health of individuals and communities. The part defines some key terminologies, and some key approaches and debates, in qualitative health geography. It focuses on practice concerns that cross-cut both qualitative and quantitative approaches in health geography. The part discusses the need to acknowledge diversity in the practice of health geography. It focuses on population-health interventions for public health, describing population health as the science underpinning the practice of public health. The part explores practitioner perspectives through the case of nursing and describes how nurse researchers have undertaken health-geography research to better understand nursing practice.
