geography of health

...However, in the process of its formation, the field did not necessarily show 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 many medical phenomena broadly from a geographical perspective. Unlike clinical medicine, the goal is not to pursue purely medical matters such as the etiology 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. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "geography of health" is listed below.

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…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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