Medical anthropology is a sub discipline of cultural anthropology which deals with the description and analysis of cultures, the socially learned traditions of past and present ages. Though the health and health related aspects of human life has been subjected to the anthropological studies and analysis the term ‘medical anthropology’ as discipline is been known only for recent time. Since its roots lie deep within medicine and other natural sciences, it is said to be a “A bio-cultural discipline concerned with both the biological and sociocultural aspects of human behaviour, and particularly with the ways in which the two interacted throughout human history to influence health and disease” (Helman 2001). Medical anthropology concerns with many factors that contribute to disease or illness and with the ways that various human populations respond to it. This paper tries to delineate various factors of health with which the Medical anthropology concerns and examine its conceptual, theoretical and methodological contributions towards health