Medical geography

Japanese: 医学地理学 - いがくちりがく（英語表記）medical geography

A science that understands disease and death phenomena that primarily occur in groups in relation to regions. However, during the formation of the science, it did not necessarily have a clear character, and it has also been called disease geography, geographic medicine, or geographic pathology. In recent years, the term "geography of health" has also been used, as it seeks to understand a wide range of medical phenomena from a geographical perspective. Unlike clinical medicine, the goal is not to pursue purely medical aspects such as the cause and symptoms of each disease, but rather to clarify the geographical conditions that affect these and to comprehensively understand the relationships between these and disease phenomena.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

主として集団的な形をとってあらわれる疾病，死亡現象を地域との関連において把握する学問。しかし学問の形成過程においては必ずしも明確な性格を示したわけではなく，疾病（しつぺい）地理学，地理医学あるいは地理病理学とも言われてきた。また，幾多の医的現象を広く地理学的にとらえようとする立場から，近年では健康地理学geography of healthという名称も使われてきている。臨床医学のように，それぞれの疾病の病因や症状という純医学的なものの追究が目的ではなく，これらに作用を及ぼす要因としての地理的諸条件を明らかにし，それらと疾病現象との間の諸関係を総合的に把握することに重点がおかれる。

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