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Descriptor English: Topography, Medical
Descriptor Spanish: Topografía Médica
Descriptor topografía médica
Scope note: Estudio, cartografía y descripción sistemáticos de sitios geográficos específicos, con referencia a las características físicas que presumiblemente influyen sobre la salud y la enfermedad. La topografía médica debe diferenciarse de la EPIDEMIOLOGÍA ya que aquella enfatiza en la geografía en tanto que la última lo hace en los brotes de enfermedades.
Descriptor Portuguese: Topografia Médica
Descriptor French: Topographie médicale
Entry term(s): Medical Topography
Tree number(s): H01.277.500.097.500
H02.403.352.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019371
Scope note: 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.
Annotation: IM as the discipline (education, history, etc); use as an NIM coordinate with specific disease /epidemiol (IM) or medical or physiologic aspect (IM) + specific geographic locale; do not use for anatomical topography ( = organ /anat)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 97
History Note: 97
Entry Version: TOPOGR MED
Related: Geographic Mapping MeSH
DeCS ID: 33175
Unique ID: D019371
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1997/01/01
Date of Entry: 1996/06/13
Revision Date: 2012/07/03
Topography, Medical - Preferred
Concept UI M0028826
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Topography, Medical
Entry term(s) Medical Topography



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