Health geography is the application of geographical data, its views, and strategies on to the study of health, disease, and health care. Medical geography can be a considered as a sub-discipline of, or the sister field of health geography. It focuses on the understanding of spatial patterns of the health and illness as associated with the natural and social atmosphere. Commonly, there are two primary areas of analysis at intervals medical geography. They're the spatial distribution and determinants of morbidity and mortality, and therefore the second is health planning, help-seeking behaviours, and the provision of health services. It focuses on the geographical variations in health and healthcare. The study of health geography was shaped by repositioning the medical geography within the field of social geography due to a shift towards a social model in health care, rather than a medical model. Health geography has been emerged from medical geography over the 30 years and its process of evolution is still continuing. It particularly associates with work on therapeutic landscapes and the application of multilevel modelling techniques to the identification of area effects on health. Medical geography is nearly connected with epidemiology, microbiology, hygiene, and pathology, as well as the physical and economic geography and especially landscape geography.

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