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The Geographical Sciences During 1986—2015

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Since the 1990s, medical & health geography is developing rapidly in China and over the world. The number of SCI/SSCI papers by Chinese authors and their citation times have highly increased. In developed counties, scientists give substantial attention to health care accessibility, health equity and their relationships with space, neighborhood, landscape, area, economic, culture, aging and other social determinants, as well as the health impacts of global environment change and large scale environment degradation. In China and other developing countries, scientists pay more attention to the health risks of local environment pollution (either heavy metals or POPs in air, soil or water) and the prevalence of local diseases. Research in China has continued for nearly half a century and has made great contributions to the control of endemic diseases and the prevention of environmentally-induced health problems.

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  3. Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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Yang, L., Li, H., Cheng, Y., Wei, B. (2017). Medical and Health Geography. In: The Geographical Sciences During 1986—2015. Springer Geography. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1884-8_21

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