"Topography, Medical" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The systematic surveying, mapping, charting, and description of specific geographical sites, with reference to the physical features that were presumed to influence health and disease. Medical topography should be differentiated from EPIDEMIOLOGY in that the former emphasizes geography whereas the latter emphasizes disease outbreaks.
| Descriptor ID |
D019371
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H01.277.500.097.500 H02.403.352.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Topography, Medical" by people in Profiles.
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Mind the Scales: Harnessing Spatial Big Data for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Inference. J Infect Dis. 2016 12 01; 214(suppl_4):S409-S413.
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Factors associated with Anaplasma spp. seroprevalence among dogs in the United States. Parasit Vectors. 2016 Mar 22; 9:169.
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GEOMED 2011 Special Issue. Editorial. Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2012 Jun; 3(2):93.
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Geomed. Stat Methods Med Res. 2011 Feb; 20(1):3.
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Joint disease mapping of cervical and male oropharyngeal cancer incidence in blacks and whites in South Carolina. Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2010 Jul; 1(2-3):133-41.
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Evaluating geographic variation in type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus incidence in youth in four US regions. Health Place. 2010 May; 16(3):547-56.