Mortality

Darlington-Pollock, Fran; Wallace, Matthew

Abstract

Mortality is a long-standing feature of population geography, important too for medical and health geographers insofar as death is the ultimate marker of (ill-)health. For population geographers, the focus on mortality has often entailed measuring and monitoring mortality, identifying potential data sources, and crucially explaining and understanding variations in mortality across different spatial scales. Death is also recognized as more than a unique event to be counted and projected. Cultural geographers look beyond the event of death, exploring the meaning imbued in deathscapes both for the living and for the dead. Though not exhaustive, the ability to monitor, measure, and start to explain why mortality varies across space and over time is key to the work of a human geographer interested in mortality.

Citation

Darlington-Pollock, F., & Wallace, M. (2019). Mortality. . Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-102295-5.10294-x

• Publication Date: Dec 4, 2019
• Deposit Date: Oct 7, 2024
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Pages: 199-204
• ISBN: 978-0-08-102296-2
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-102295-5.10294-x