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Descriptor English: Protective Factors
Descriptor Spanish: Factores Protectores
Descriptor factores protectores
Entry term(s) protección
Scope note: Aspecto de la conducta personal o estilo de vida, exposición ambiental, o característica innata o hereditaria que, atendiendo a los datos epidemiológicos, se asocia con la prevención o mitigación de una enfermedad cuya prevención es importante.
Descriptor Portuguese: Fatores de Proteção
Descriptor French: Facteurs de protection
Entry term(s): Factor, Protective
Factors, Protective
Protection
Protective Factor
Tree number(s): E05.318.740.600.800.582
N05.715.350.200.675
N05.715.360.750.625.700.570
N06.850.490.625.625
N06.850.520.830.600.800.582
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D065840
Scope note: An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with prevention or mitigation of a health-related condition considered important to prevent.
Annotation: coordinate NIM with specific disease or other concept (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 2015
History Note: 2015
DeCS ID: 55693
Unique ID: D065840
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Date Established: 2015/01/01
Date of Entry: 2014/06/26
Revision Date: 2014/06/16
Protective Factors - Preferred
Concept UI M0591295
Scope note An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with prevention or mitigation of a health-related condition considered important to prevent.
Preferred term Protective Factors
Entry term(s) Factor, Protective
Factors, Protective
Protection
Protective Factor



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