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The course pursues the aims of medical geography, which focuses the attention around the territorial distribution of different pathologies and the causes of these distributions, as well as the different determinants of health which can be addressed in order to improve the quality of life of different communities. The course aims to provide specific keys which make it possible to analyze a series of aspects concerning the relationship between environmental and behavioral risk factors and population health. Moreover, the course provides methodological and operational tools that permit to move towards the aims of safety geography, where geotechnologies can provide notable added value to move towards better health-territorial planning and in the perspective of education and awareness of the population.