Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Islamic Republic of Iran.
East Mediterr Health J. 2009 Nov-Dec;15(6):1564-9.
Recent developments in the geographical sciences and technologies, namely geographical epidemiology, geographical information systems, global positioning systems and spatial data analysis brings about a unique opportunity to investigate the role of "place" in human health in a scientific manner. The aim of the present communication is to open a discussion about the application of these advances to study the geography of public health problems within the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization.
地理科学和技术的最新发展，即地理流行病学、地理信息系统、全球定位系统和空间数据分析，为以科学的方式研究“地点”在人类健康中的作用提供了独特的机会。本通讯的目的是开启关于在世界卫生组织东地中海区域内应用这些进展研究公共卫生问题的地理分布的讨论。
