ABSTRACT
Medical geography is the analysis of the human-environmental relationship of disease, nutrition, and medical care systems in order to elucidate its interrelationships in space. It is important for medical geographers to seriously consider what the concept and definition of the field are; because how medical geographers conceptualize medical geography will determine their research goals. 'The geography of health is a more accurate term than medical geography as a title for the sub-discipline'. Several contemporary authors have claimed that the geography of health is the more appropriate title for the sub-discipline. Since the geography of medical care is not directly interested in disease distribution and disease spatial process per se, then clearly, it can not be a sub-section of disease geography. Disease ecology and geographical or spatial epidemiology are sub-sections of medical geography. When one examines a number of epidemiological studies and compares them with studies in medical geography, the differences are apparent.
