A growing interest in community-level characteristics such as social capital and their
relationship to healthcare access is evident. To assess the rigor with which this construct has …

In this article, we conceptualize housing as an infrastructure of care. Drawing on the recent
infrastructural turn in social sciences we understand infrastructures as dynamic patterns that …

This paper develops an agenda for a broadened conceptualisation of urban caring within
geographical research. We open by identifying three existing domains of urban care …

This study aimed to evaluate whether subjective assessments of unmet need may
complement conventional methods of measuring socioeconomic inequity in health care …

Studies of well-being have been dominated by perspectives that stem from Western, health-
science notions of individual's health and psychological development. In recent times …

The availability of, and access to, primary health care is one neighbourhood characteristic
that has the potential to impact health thus representing an important area of focus for …

We present a critical review of the literature that discusses the link between the level of out-
of-pocket payments in developed countries and the share of people in these countries …

Background Urban environments can influence many aspects of health and well-being and
access to health care is one of them. Access to primary health care (PHC) in urban settings …

Neighborhood social and physical contexts have the ability to impact health and health
behaviors of residents. One neighborhood characteristic that remains underexamined in the …

Neighbourhood effects on health are partly determined by the way the neighbourhoods are
defined (the modifiable areal unit problem), but few studies of place effects have …