Our workshops are designed to provide hands-on experience and knowledge exchange. Experts lead interactive sessions focused on geographical issues and sustainable practices, enabling participants to implement innovative solutions in their fields.
Workshop 1:
Healthscapes in Transition: Geography, Inequality, and Systemic Resilience
Chair: Prof. Liliana Dumitrache
Abstract
This workshop explores the evolving landscape of health through a geographic lens, emphasizing spatial inequality and the resilience of health systems. In light of global challenges—climate change, urbanization, demographic shifts, and socio-political instability—it highlights the critical role of place-based factors in shaping health outcomes and healthcare delivery.
Engaging with the concept of healthscapes as dynamic, multi-scalar environments, the workshop brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to examine geographic disparities, the intersection of environmental and social determinants, and community responses to crises such as pandemics and environmental disruptions.
The workshop will address five key topics:
(1) Spatial Patterns of Health and Disease, focusing on geographic distribution and urban–rural disparities;
(2) Environmental Change, Climate, and Public Health, examining the health impacts of environmental degradation;
(3) Health Inequities, Disadvantaged Groups, and Access to Care, highlighting social determinants and barriers to healthcare;
(4) Physical Access to Healthcare and Spatial Accessibility, including GIS-based analyses of infrastructure and service availability;
(5) Resilience and Adaptation in Health Systems, exploring crisis response and community-based strategies.