Disciplines and Occupations

Geography

The science dealing with the earth and its life, especially the description of land, sea, and air and the distribution of plant and animal life, including humanity and human industries with reference to the mutual relations of these elements. (From Webster, 3d ed)

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

The science dealing with the earth and its life, especially the description of land, sea, and air and the distribution of plant and animal life, including humanity and human industries with reference to the mutual relations of these elements. (From Webster, 3d ed)

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Synonyms

6 entry terms
  • Factor, Geographic
  • Factors, Geographic
  • Geographic Factor
  • Geographic Factors
  • Geography, Human
  • Human Geography

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

IM as the discipline (education, history, etc); NIM with no qualifiers as a coordinate; do not use for epidemiologic aspects of disease, index disease /epidemiol + geographic location term

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Geography. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005843. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005843
  2. Geography. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography
  3. Geography. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1071