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Health geography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care. Medical geography, a sub-discipline of, or sister field of health geography, [1] focuses on understanding spatial patterns of health and disease in relation to the natural and social environment.
It was the first work of medical geography with a world-wide scope. [2] He was influenced by Johann Peter Frank, and encouraged by James Lind. In turn, Finke influenced August Hirsch, and was a precursor of Humboldtian medicine. [3] Finke worked on an unpublished nosological map.
Medical geology is an interdisciplinary scientific field studying the relationship between natural geological factors and their effects on human and animal health. [1] The Commission on Geological Sciences for Environmental Planning defines medical geology as "the science dealing with the influence of ordinary environmental factors on the geographical distribution of health problems in man and ...
Torsten Hägerstrand’s early work on “waves of innovation” is the basis that many medical cartographers and geographers use for mapping spatial diffusion (1968). [5] The diffusion of disease can be described in four patterns: expansion diffusion, contagious diffusion, hierarchal diffusion and relocation diffusion. [6]
Janus was an academic journal published in Amsterdam in the French language from 1896 to 1990, [1] devoted to the history of medicine and the history of science. [2] It should not be confused with a different journal by the same name on the history of medicine, published roughly 50 years earlier in Germany as Janus, Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Literatur der Medicin.
Medical/Public health: specific preventive and curative measures used to combat disease, including improved public sanitation, immunization and the development of decisive therapies. Medical and public health factors came into play late in the western transition, but have an influence early in certain accelerated and contemporary transitions.
Medical humanities is an interdisciplinary field of medicine which includes the humanities (philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and bioethics, history of medicine, literary studies and religion), social science (psychology, medical sociology, medical anthropology, cultural studies, health geography) and the arts (literature, theater, film, and visual arts) and their application to medical ...
The first gave the necessary lessons to know the body structures, the parts that compose it, and their qualities; the second gave the means to preserve the health and to fight disease. And, in common with all other medical schools of the time, the basis of medical teaching was the principles of Hippocrates and Galen.