Medical geography: Topical approaches and methodological intersections
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چکیده
Medical geography is an ancient branch of human that has its roots throughout history as ideas and practices. It later developed a scientific methodology took applied path by adopting medical data quantitative analysis to devote attention towards revealing health suffering at the spatial level. objective involvement with medicine systematic intersection in contexts research study.
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[Medical geography].
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International journal of medical sciences
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2522-7386']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32441/ijms.6.2.1