Introducing section 4: Places and spaces

This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part implicitly and explicitly examines place and space and their role in health, wellness, well-being, daily life, and health-care delivery and receipt. It offers important insights regarding pressing future research directions that will redefine how one understands the complex and intricate relationships between place, space and health. The part considers care for aging persons and explores a number of movements across international borders (or transnational movements) for health-care delivery or receipt, including the practice of international retirement migration. It presents the changing landscape of health and social care that has shifted the site of care in much of the Global North out of institutional settings, such as hospitals and long-term-care facilities, and into the community. The part examines parks as spaces of play for children that offer opportunities for building health in city settings.