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MeSH Heading: Geography, Medical
Tree Number(s): H01.277.500.097; H02.403.352
Unique ID: D062306
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D062306
Annotation: IM as the discipline (education, history, etc); NIM with no qualifiers as a coordinate
Scope Note: The area of medicine concerned with the effects on health and disease due to geographic factors such as CLIMATE, environmental conditions, and geographic location.
Entry Version: GEOGR MED
Entry Term(s): Geomedicine; Medical Geography; Nosogeography
Previous Indexing: Geography (1964-2012)
Public MeSH Note: 2013
History Note: 2013
Date Established: 2013/01/01
Date of Entry: 2012/07/03

Allowable Qualifiers: classification (CL)

economics (EC)

education (ED)

ethics (ES)

history (HI)

instrumentation (IS)

legislation & jurisprudence (LJ)

methods (MT)

organization & administration (OG)

standards (ST)

statistics & numerical data (SN)

trends (TD)

Concept UI: M0009183
Scope Note: The area of medicine concerned with the effects on health and disease due to geographic factors such as CLIMATE, environmental conditions, and geographic location.
Terms: Geography, Medical Preferred Term
Term UI T017691
Date05/17/1996
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1997); Nosogeography
Term UI T799977
Date11/02/2011
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2013); Geomedicine
Term UI T799976
Date11/02/2011
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2013); Medical Geography
Term UI T017692
Date05/17/1996
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1997)

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