TY - JOUR
AB -  Ross Barnett Ross Barnett was promoted to Professor of Geography at the University of Canterbury in December 2006. His teaching focuses on urban inequality and welfare issues, and has close links to his main area of research, the geography of health and health services. These interests reflect a formative period spent undertaking a PhD at the University of Iowa in the early 1970s. After his appointment at the University of Canterbury in 1975, his research was initially on inequalities in the distribution of primary and secondary care. In the 1990s he began increasingly to consider issues of urban poverty and health sector restructuring. He is currently concerned with problems of accessing primary health care, the development of primary health organizations (PHOs), urban poverty and hospital admissions, hospital restructuring and community resistance to rural hospital closures, the impacts of ethnic inequality on smoking rates, and geographical and social differences in the incidence of diabetes, melanoma and suicide. His research has informed the development of the NZ Primary Health Care Strategy and he is at present undertaking joint research projects with two Canterbury health organizations, Pegasus Health and Partnership Health PHO in Christchurch. He contributes to a range of joint 
TI - New Professors in Geography
JF - New Zealand Geographer
DO - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.2007.00103.x
DA - 2007-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/new-professors-in-geography-eKPv0y0z27
SP - 154
VL - 63
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -