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Descriptor English: Institutionalization
Descriptor Spanish: Institucionalización
Descriptor institucionalización
Scope note: Atención a individuos en una institución y su adaptación a las rutinas características del ambiente institucional y/o la pérdida de adaptación a la vida fuera de la institución
Descriptor Portuguese: Institucionalização
Descriptor French: Institutionnalisation
Entry term(s): Institutionalizations
Institutionalized Person
Institutionalized Persons
Person, Institutionalized
Persons, Institutionalized
Tree number(s): E02.760.415
N02.421.585.415
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007326
Scope note: The caring for individuals in institutions and their adaptation to routines characteristic of the institutional environment, and/or their loss of adaptation to life outside the institution.
Annotation: coord IM with type of institution (IM) if pertinent; institutionalization of mentally ill: consider also COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SD supply & distribution
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 79
History Note: 79
Related: Child, Institutionalized MeSH
Deinstitutionalization MeSH
Hospitalization MeSH
DeCS ID: 7499
Unique ID: D007326
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1979/01/01
Date of Entry: 1978/05/16
Revision Date: 2015/06/29
Institutionalization - Preferred
Concept UI M0011411
Scope note The caring for individuals in institutions and their adaptation to routines characteristic of the institutional environment, and/or their loss of adaptation to life outside the institution.
Preferred term Institutionalization
Entry term(s) Institutionalizations
Institutionalized Persons - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0011412
Preferred term Institutionalized Persons
Entry term(s) Institutionalized Person
Person, Institutionalized
Persons, Institutionalized



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