Arguments in Health Geography: On Sub‐Disciplinary Progress, Observation, Translation

Abstract To introduce the sub‐discipline of health geography and its developing interests, this paper initially reviews the different forms of arguments mounted by researchers. First, arguments on the nature and progress of inquiry that speak to directions, concepts, theories and methods. Second, using health care settings, public health and environmental health as illustrations, arguments that interpret and explain health and health care in different ways. A final series of discussions takes the theme of arguments further in terms of how they might affect change in the world. Specifically, health geography is situated within four broad movements currently unfolding in the larger disciplines to which it contributes. With regard to the parent discipline of human geography, the ‘policy turn’ and more generally the idea of ‘public geography’. With regard to the health sciences, Evidenced‐Based Health Care and Knowledge Translation.