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Titre
Le lieu, l'espace et la santé.
Sujet
Development ; Health ; Epistemology ; Geography ; Epidemiology ; Risk Factors ; Environment ; Scale ; Health System
Echelle ; Environnement ; Risque ; Epidémiologie ; Santé ; Géographie ; Système de soins ; Développement ; Epistémologie ; Milieu
Description
Les relations entre le lieu, l'espace et la santé demeurent ambigus du fait de conceptions disciplinaires différentes. D'abord du fait d'une confusion fréquente entre géographie et cartographie, et d'une définition encore mal cernée de l'environnement. La mesure de l'état de santé se fait par ailleurs le plus souvent à partir de données biomédicales et selon des méthodes biostatistiques. L'espace, le lieu sont alors compris comme de simples supports, indifférenciés, stables et immuables, sans référence à leur organisation et leur usage. On maintient enfin une frontière artificielle entre géographie des maladies et géographie du système de soins. Dès lors les géographes doivent rester géographes et intégrer les faits de santé dans leur analyse de l'espace à plusieurs échelles.
Place, Space and Healt.
The relation between place, space and health remains in ambiguity as a result of different disciplinary ideas. First because of a frequent mistake between geography and cartography and of a confuse definition of environment. Furthermore the evaluation of health levels is made generally from biomédical data and according to biostatistical methods. So place and space are understood as a mere support, a plane, homogeneous and underchanging surface without references to their organization and their use. And finally an artificial separation is preserved between the geography of diseases and the geography of health services. Consequently geographers have to remain geographers ! They have to integrate and incorporate health data in their own spatial analysis by different scales.
The relation between place, space and health remains in ambiguity as a result of different disciplinary ideas. First because of a frequent mistake between geography and cartography and of a confuse definition of environment. Furthermore the evaluation of health levels is made generally from biomédical data and according to biostatistical methods. So place and space are understood as a mere support, a plane, homogeneous and underchanging surface without references to their organization and their use. And finally an artificial separation is preserved between the geography of diseases and the geography of health services. Consequently geographers have to remain geographers ! They have to integrate and incorporate health data in their own spatial analysis by different scales.
Picheral Henri. Le lieu, l'espace et la santé.. In: Espace, populations, sociétés, 1995-1. La géographie de la santé en question. pp. 19-24.
Créateur
Henri Picheral
Éditeur
PERSEE
Date
1995
Langue
fre
Type
article
Identifiant
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/espos_0755-7809_1995_num_13_1_1666
doi:10.3406/espos.1995.1666
Couverture
19-24