ABSTRACT
Health geography is concerned with the collection, analysis and presentation of data that measures or represents the health of individuals or populations in light of geographical factors. A guiding principle of health geography is that places matter for health (Kearns and Moon, 2002), the validity of which has been tested in according to a diversity of research practices (Macintyre, Ellaway and Cummins, 2002). In this chapter, the ongoing role of quantitative data in health geography is explored in light of developments sometimes termed the data revolution (Kitchin, 2014).
