Medical Landscape Science

Medical landscape science is a branch of medical geography that studies natural (landscape) territorial systems in terms of their impact (including potential) on public health.

The main objectives of medical landscape science are to identify the circulation of pathogens of natural focal diseases in natural landscapes and the presence of prerequisites for geochemical endemics that can negatively affect the health of people living in a given territory.

The study of landscapes from a medical point of view allows us to identify areas with an increased risk of the spread of infectious and parasitic diseases, as well as diseases associated with a deficiency or excess of microelements in the environment. Based on the data obtained, recommendations are being developed for the prevention and improvement of medically and geographically unfavorable territories.

Thus, medical landscape science, by comprehensively analyzing the influence of natural factors on public health, is an important tool for optimizing the human environment.

medical landscape science is a branch of medical geography that studies natural (landscape) territorial systems and aspects of their influence, including the potential difference in the circulation and pathogens of blight diseases in them or the presence of prerequisites geochemical endemic study of natural systems as habitats for organisms representing natural focality and diseases spread by them.