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Descriptor English: Literacy
Descriptor Spanish: Alfabetización
Descriptor alfabetización
Entry term(s) analfabetismo
Scope note: Capacidad para leer y escribir.
Descriptor Portuguese: Alfabetização
Descriptor French: Lettrisme
Entry term(s): Illiteracy
Tree number(s): F01.145.209.429
N01.824.196.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000067010
Scope note: Ability to read and write.
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
HI history
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 2016; for ILLITERACY see EDUCATIONAL STATUS
History Note: 2016; for ILLITERACY use EDUCATIONAL STATUS
Related: Handwriting MeSH
Health Literacy MeSH
Reading MeSH
Writing MeSH
DeCS ID: 56073
Unique ID: D000067010
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Date Established: 2016/01/01
Date of Entry: 2015/07/10
Revision Date: 2017/06/30
Literacy - Preferred
Concept UI M000597566
Scope note Ability to read and write.
Preferred term Literacy
Illiteracy - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0007114
Preferred term Illiteracy



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