Medical geography is a branch of geography that deals with the study of the effects of the environment on people's health and the geographical distribution of diseases, including also the study of the geographical factors that influence their spread. Medical Geography is divided into two branches: pathological Geography and Nosogeography.[1]​.

The relationship between space and health has been relevant from the beginning and this determined that Spanish-speaking geographers accepted to a greater extent the concept "Geography of Health" (closer to the French Geographie de la Santé). On the other hand, within Anglo-Saxon geography the term "Medical Geography" predominates, which some authors consider more limited by reducing this discipline to simple analyzes of the distribution of diseases by regions or by epidemiological area.[2]​

However, this last name is the one that predominates in the Anglo-Saxon scientific community.

• - Buzai, Gustavo. Spatial analysis in Health Geography. Buenos Aires. Editorial Place, 2015.

• - Kotlyokov, Vladimir and Komarova, Anna. Elsevier's Dictionary of Geography (in English, Russian, French, Spanish and German). Moscow. Elsevier, 2007.

• - Olivera, Ana. Geography of Health. Madrid. Synthesis, 1994.

• - Pickenhayn, Jorge A. (Compiler) Health and illness in Geography. Buenos Aires. Editorial Place, 2009.

• - Santana Juárez, M.V. and Galindo Mendoza, M.G. Geography of Health without borders, from Ibero-America. Toluca. Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, 2014.

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