Changing geographies of aging on a global scale: The knowledge to action gap

Health geographers have empathy for health inequities as evidenced in their corpus of work. In undertaking this work, we have borrowed theories from (related) disciplines, applied sophisticated spatial analytic quantitative tools, innovative qualitative approaches, kept up with cutting edge research in the areas of immunology and social epigenetics, and made substantial contributions to knowledge. The focus of this piece is the two (in my view) visible gaps remaining: the knowledge to action gap, and the limited (that is, less than global) gaze. These gaps are illustrated through an example from our research on aging in Uganda.

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