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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.
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 ...
The value of mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is becoming better known to public health professionals to help link disease control to prevention efforts, which can aid in developing better immunization programs. [11] GIS is an excellent tool used to identify spatial patterns and core areas of disease transmission.
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 [3] Finke worked on an unpublished nosological map.
Spatial epidemiology is a subfield of epidemiology focused on the study of the spatial distribution of health outcomes; it is closely related to health geography. Specifically, spatial epidemiology is concerned with the description and examination of disease and its geographic variations.
Health & Place is a bimonthly peer-reviewed public health journal covering research on the relationship between geographic location and health. It was established in 1995 and is published by Elsevier .
This article presents some history of use of geographic information and geographic information systems in public health application areas, provides some examples showing the utilization of GIS techniques in solving specific public health problems, and finally addresses several potential issues arising from increased use of these GIS techniques ...
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