medical geography

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Medical geography is the study of how geographic factors influence disease. It examines the relationship between the environment and health outcomes. The term "geomedical" is an adjective used to describe things related to or concerned with this field.12

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Medical geography focuses on patterns of disease and death—of how diseases spread, for example, and how variations in morbidity and mortality rates reflect local environments—and on geographies of health care provision.
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Medical geography focuses on patterns of disease and death—of how diseases spread, for example, and how variations in morbidity and mortality rates reflect local environments—and on geographies of health care provision.
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