According to the current state of medical geography, the two main traditions focus on 1) studies of health service delivery and 2) studies of disease patterns , including disease ecology. This symbolizes how human-environment relationships are closely linked to cultural ecology. Yet, as mentioned previously, cultural and political ecology define the political ecology of disease. All of these factors are interconnected due to the microscopic aspects of an individual's life. The same factors that affect an individual's health affect the likelihood that they will be at risk of disease. From my point of view, the relationships between political, economic and social characteristics and relationships and the environment should be limited to capitalism and colonialism. To be more specific, throughout history, capitalism and colonialism have had an immense impact on societies that suffer from health disparities and die from diseases. Dr. Mayer's example of malaria in Trinidad provides an excellent example of how the environment, economics, politics and human behavior, but also capitalism and colonialism, have primarily contributed to development and the increase in diseases. When the country was in a phase of development and transition from agriculture to