American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 155, No. 7 : 680-681
Copyright © 2002 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Island Epidemics
Department of Epidemiology College of Human Medicine Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48823
I would venture to guess that few of us in the epidemiology world have thought very much about medical geography and the ways in which this discipline might intersect with our own in investigating disease origins. The recent development of geographic information systems (GIS) software has brought the two disciplines together in the technological arena to map disease patterns and to link them visually to suspected etiologic factors, but this is far from establishing a
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