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Editorial
. 2020 Dec;15(sup1):1750263.
doi: 10.1080/17482631.2020.1750263.

Space and place for health and care

Åsa Roxberg  1 , Kristina Tryselius  2 , Martin Gren  3 , Berit Lindahl  4 , Carina Werkander Harstäde  5 , Anastasia Silverglow  6 , Kajsa Nolbeck  7 , Franz James  8 , Ing-Marie Carlsson  9 , Sepideh Olausson  10   11 , Susanna Nordin  12 , Helle Wijk  11
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Space and place for health and care

Åsa Roxberg et al. Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

Purpose: This discussion paper aims to contribute to a greater understanding of the state of the art of research engaged with conceptual matters of space and place for health and care. Method: The authors, who represent a variety of academic disciplines, discuss and demonstrate the conceptual recognition of space and place in research in health and caring sciences building upon own work and experience. Results: To explore the concepts of space and place for health and care is a research pursuit of utmost importance, and should be made through transdisciplinary research collaborations, whereby spatial theories from various disciplines could be communicated to cultivate truly novel and well-informed research. Furthermore, engaging with relational and topological perceptions of space and place poses methodological challenges to overcome in future research on health and care. Conclusions: We argue that there is a need for accelerating spatially informed research on health and care that is informed by current theories and perspectives on space and place, and transdisciplinary research collaborations are a means to achieving this.

Keywords: Space; care; health; place; transdisciplinarity.

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