ABSTRACT
Medical Geography or Spatial Epidemiology is concerned with two fundamental questions: (1) where and when do diseases tend to occur? and (2) why do such patterns exist? The field has experienced substantial growth over the last decade with the widespread recognition that the concept of “place” plays a significant role in our understanding of individual health (Kwan, 2012) while advances in geographical modeling techniques have made it easier to conduct spatial analysis at different granularities, both spatially and temporally (Cromley and McLafferty, 2011). Several journals (for example, Health and Place, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology, International Journal of Health Geographics, Geospatial Health and Environmental Health) have a long tradition to publishing research on topics in Spatial Epidemiology.
