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 models, including ecology of the disease. This symbolizes how relationships between people and the environment are closely linked to cultural ecology. However, as mentioned above, both cultural and political ecology define the political ecology of illness. All these factors are interconnected due to the microscopic aspects of an individual's life. The same factors that influence an individual's health influence the likelihood that he or she is at risk for disease. In my perspective, the relationships between political, economic and social characteristics and relationships with the environment must be confined to capitalism and colonialism. To be more specific, throughout history, both capitalism and colonialism have had an immense effect on societies suffering from health disparities and dying from diseases. A great example of how the environment, economy, politics and human behavior, but at the same time capitalism and colonialism, have mainly contributed to the development and increase of diseases is the example of malaria in Trinidad in Dr. Mayer. When the country was in the process of development and transition from agriculture to agriculture