The tremendous potential of GIS and RS to benefit the health care industry is just now beginning to be realized. This is an important new area of research that is hybrid between geography and medicine dealing with the geographic aspects of health and health care. That was also called Medical Geography or Health Geography.
Medical geography or health geography studies the effect of locale and climate upon health. It aims to improve understanding of various factors which affects the health of population and hence individuals. This area studies human ecology and health on the surface of the earth, with an analytical study of the world patterns of disease distribution and their cultural/environmental interactions, as well as alterations of disease patterns because of developments in various cultures.
Clinical and administrative information can be disseminated in a visual and geographic manner that is readily understood using ESRI internet map server (IMS) technology. This health data can be easily accessed using an intranet or the internet.
