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Health geography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care. Medical geography, a sub-discipline of, or sister field of health geography, [1] focuses on understanding spatial patterns of health and disease in relation to the natural and social environment. [2][3 ...
The health issues of athletics concern their physical and mental well-being in organized sport. If athletes are physically and mentally underdeveloped, they are susceptible to mental or physical problems. Efforts to improve performance can lead to harm from overtraining, adopting eating habits that damage them physically or psychologically ...
The main academic full-text databases are open archives or link-resolution services, although others operate under different models such as mirroring or hybrid publishers. Such services typically provide access to full text and full-text search, but also metadata about items for which no full text is available.
Athletic training is an allied health care profession recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA) [1] that "encompasses the prevention, examination, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of emergent, acute, or chronic injuries and medical conditions." [2] There are five areas of athletic training listed in the seventh edition (2015 ...
Illustration of a Nebraska Cornhuskers football player published on a 1904 Yearbook. College athletics in the United States or college sports in the United States refers primarily to sports and athletic training and competition organized and funded by institutions of tertiary education (universities and colleges) in a two-tiered system.
Health issues in American football comprise a large number of health risks associated with participating in the sport. Injuries are relatively common in American football, due to its nature as a full-contact game. Injuries occur during both practice and games. Several factors can affect the frequency of injuries: epidemiological studies have ...
The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT; / ˈɛmkæt / EM-kat) is a computer-based standardized examination for prospective medical students (both Allopathic M.D. and Osteopathic D.O.) in the United States, Australia, [ 9 ] Canada, and the Caribbean Islands. It is designed to assess problem solving, critical thinking, written analysis and ...
Medical geology is an interdisciplinary scientific field studying the relationship between natural geological factors and their effects on human and animal health. [1] The Commission on Geological Sciences for Environmental Planning defines medical geology as "the science dealing with the influence of ordinary environmental factors on the geographical distribution of health problems in man and ...