1. General concepts
This chapter introduces the conceptual foundations underpinning the data analysis techniques presented in this article. First, it introduces the health systems approach that underpins the use of spatial analysis in epidemiology and health geography.
1.1 Systems approach to healthcare
A health phenomenon depends on a large number of parameters. Some relate to the individual characteristics of individuals (general, such as age and sex, or biological and genetic) and have long been the only ones used by biology and medicine. But many other parameters depend on behaviours, interactions and, above all, relationships between individuals or between individuals and their environment (natural, social, economic).
These behaviors and interactions...
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