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Journal Article 
Behavioral geography: As a new trend in medical geography studies 
Elsabawy, MNE 
2013 
1 
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
ISSN: 2039-9340
EISSN: 2039-2117 
4 
7 
75-83 
English 
This paper aims to study another dimensions in behavioral geography related to medical geography branch as a subfield in geographic discipline. Environmental health and disease of human kind is focus of this study, we can see this aspects clear through behavior of utilization building roofs in multi unhealthy using, as investment without care about environmental health care. Or through personal considerations such as nutrition behavior, treatment behavior, and health awareness. Child abuse is in the focus of this study too because it has relation to ethics and to determine areal differentiations between many regions and laws control these phenomena. 
Behavioral; Cognitive; Geography; Medical geography