title: [A process and the prospects for the medical geographic study].
abstract: Medical geography is an edge subject crossing many other subjects. It has lately become the focus of attention for the continuously worsening of the living surroundings (earth environment) of the human beings and a series of threats it imposes on human health. This text consists of a comprehensive description of the history of medical geography, a detailed introduction of the research work done in China. What's more, we put forward the idea that disease geography and health geography will become the hotspot in recent study in our country.
authors.affiliation: Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China.
authors.forename: Wei-Min
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Chan-Juan
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yu-Qi
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods; D005843:Geography / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D019371:Topography, Medical / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*