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Lilienfeld (12) has described epidemiology as the study of “the occurrence of disease by time, place, and persons”. Medical geography, an allied or subfield of epidemiology, focuses primarily on place, although not to the exclusion of the other important variables. Many significant epidemiological hypotheses have been generated by observing differentials in the occurrence of disease by place, e.g., Snow’s work on cholera, Ross’ work on malaria, Reed’s work on yellow fever, and Bruce’s work on trypanosomes (7, 15).
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Fulton, J.P. (1990). Medical Geography and Neoplasms. In: Weisburger, E.K. (eds) Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis. Cancer Growth and Progression, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2526-7_23
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