It is conventional, and useful, to divide
the geography of health into two broad areas: the
geography of disease and ill-health; and the
geography of health care. In the first, interest is in
describing, exploring, and perhaps modelling, the
spatial incidence of disease or illness. Important
questions that arise here concern whether there is
evidence for ‘clustering’ of disease, or whether there
are areas that have unusual ‘clusters’ of health