Authors
Lyndall Strazdins, Amy L Griffin, Dorothy H Broom, Cathy Banwell, Rosemary Korda, Jane Dixon, Francesco Paolucci, John Glover
Publication date
2011/3
Journal
Environment and Planning A
Volume
43
Issue
3
Pages
545-559
Publisher
Sage Publications
Description
Considerable policy action has focused on the social patterning of health, especially the health risks associated with low income. More recent attention has turned to transport, food systems, workplaces, and location, and the way their intersections with social position and income create health inequalities. Time is another dimension that structures what people do; yet the way in which time contours health has been neglected. This paper explores (a) how time might influence health, and (b) the way in which time scarcity complicates current understandings of health inequalities. Alongside other meanings, time can be thought of as a health resource. People need time to access health services, build close relationships, exercise, work, play, care, and consume—all activities that are fundamental to health. There is evidence that the experience of time pressure is directly related to poorer mental health. Lack of time is …
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