Abstract
This paper aims to introduce some of the medico-geographical works in Japan. Especially, the studies on the geographical distribution of stroke mortality have been developed systematically, whereas the very various aspects of the medical phenomena have been recently analysed.
The publication of the National Disease Atlas stimulated the analysis of the geographical variance of disease mortality. Here we had some stages of the analysis of stroke mortality as follows: statistical tools used for demonstrating the geographical distribution of mortality from stroke, statistical analysis of ecological/epidemiological association of stroke mortality, and studies on temperature and climate possibly related to stroke. Last, it was pointed that the appropriate methods according to the geographical scale must be used for the geographical analysis of disease mortality.
