A Medical Geology curriculum for African geoscience institutions

Linking Health to Geology-A New Assessment and Zoning Model Based on the Frame of Medical Geology

“…Groundwater arsenic levels in different regions are related to geochemical processes such as volcanic eruptions and erosion of arsenic-bearing minerals, and long-term exposure to arsenic can lead to diseases such as cancer (Machado et al, 2020;WardropLe Blond, 2015). These results show that geological features are closely related to health problems, and medical geology is a discipline that studies the relationship between speci c geological features and the development of a range of health problems (WardropLe Blond, 2015), as well as the prevention and treatment of human and animal diseases by studying the role of geological materials and processes on the distribution of these diseases (Davies, 2019). The current eld of medical geology is generally concerned with the effects on human health by contaminants generated by speci c geological activities or processes (e.g., arsenic, uoride, dust storms, volcanic activity, earthquakes) (Gwenzi, 2020).…”