Landscape epidemiology draws some of its roots from the field of landscape ecology. Just as the discipline of landscape ecology is concerned with analyzing both pattern and process in ecosystems across time and space, landscape epidemiology can be used to analyze both risk patterns and environmental risk factors.
Landscape epidemiology is connected to landscape ecology, which examines both the patterns and processes of ecosystems over time and space.  Like landscape ecology, landscape epidemiology analyzes both the distribution of risks and the factors that contribute to those risks in an ecosystem.