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| 11518527589 | medical geography | The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective. Among other things, medical geography looks at sources, diffusion routes, and distributions of diseases. | 0 | |
| 11518527590 | chemical insults | factors, such as drugs, dangerous gases, and harmful liquids, that negatively affect human health | 1 | |
| 11518527591 | physical insults | traumatic events, such as accidents, shock, or radiation poisoning, that negatively affect human health | 2 | |
| 11518527592 | psychosocial insults | positive or negative effects of crowding, anxiety, love, and sense of belonging | 3 | |
| 11518527593 | habitat | the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism. | 4 | |
| 11518527594 | behavior | observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals | 5 | |
| 11518527595 | epidemic | a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. | 6 | |
| 11518527596 | Pandemic | Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population. | 7 | |
| 11518527597 | agent | an organism that causes a disease, such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, or flukes | 8 | |
| 11518527598 | host | An organism on which a parasite lives. | 9 | |
| 11518527599 | Vector | a disease agent is trasmited through rats, mosquitos | 10 | |
| 11518527600 | Cyclical movement | movement from home for a short period of time; commuting, seasonal, nomadism | 11 | |
| 11518527601 | periodic movement | motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same | 12 | |
| 11518527602 | primitive migration | human movements that occur when a population runs out of food | 13 | |
| 11518527603 | free migration | when people move on their own without push from the government | 14 | |
| 11518527604 | Forced Migration | Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors. | 15 | |
| 11518527605 | human trafficking | The illegal trade of human beings, a modern-day form of slavery, for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or involuntary military combat. | 16 | |
| 11518527606 | Child Soldiers | Youth that are either forced or impelled to serve as fighters or members of a militia. | 17 | |
| 11518527607 | refuge | a safe place | 18 | |
| 11518527608 | Ravenstein's Laws | a series of laws that describe voluntary migration patterns | 19 | |
| 11518527609 | Distance Decay | the effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction | 20 | |
| 11518527610 | push-pull model | A model of migration that argues that people are pushed from their homes by certain negative factors and pulled to other locations by positive qualities. | 21 | |
| 11518527611 | factor mobility model | an economic model that argues that differences in wage rates cause people to migrate from low-wage areas to high-wage areas | 22 | |
| 11518527612 | human capital model | a theory of migration that argues that people move not just for macroeconomic reasons but also for individual reasons | 23 |
