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Descriptor English: Social Isolation
Descriptor Spanish: Aislamiento Social
Descriptor aislamiento social
Entry term(s) exclusión social
Scope note: Separación de personas o de grupos que da lugar a la pérdida o la disminución del contacto social o la comunicación. Esta separación puede tener lugar por una separación física, por barreras sociales o por mecanismos psicológicos. En este último caso, puede existir una interacción pero no una comunicación real.
Descriptor Portuguese: Isolamento Social
Descriptor French: Isolement social
Entry term(s): Exclusion, Social
Exclusions, Social
Isolation, Social
Isolations, Social
Social Exclusion
Social Exclusions
Social Isolations
Tree number(s): F01.145.813.781
I01.880.853.748
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012934
Scope note: The separation of individuals or groups resulting in the lack of or minimizing of social contact and/or communication. This separation may be accomplished by physical separation, by social barriers and by psychological mechanisms. In the latter, there may be interaction but no real communication.
Annotation: human & animal; for issues concerning health, coordinate with SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Allowable Qualifiers: PX psychology
Public MeSH Note: 69; was ISOLATION, SOCIAL 1968
Online Note: use SOCIAL ISOLATION to search ISOLATION, SOCIAL 1968
History Note: 69; was ISOLATION, SOCIAL 1968
Entry Version: SOCIAL ISOL
DeCS ID: 13316
Unique ID: D012934
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1969/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2020/04/29
Social Isolation - Preferred
Concept UI M0020029
Scope note The separation of individuals or groups resulting in the lack of or minimizing of social contact and/or communication. This separation may be accomplished by physical separation, by social barriers and by psychological mechanisms. In the latter, there may be interaction but no real communication.
Preferred term Social Isolation
Entry term(s) Isolation, Social
Isolations, Social
Social Isolations
Social Exclusion - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000749034
Scope note Exclusion consists of dynamic, multi-dimensional processes driven by unequal power relationships interacting across four main dimensions - economic, political, social and cultural - and at different levels including individual, household, group, community, country and global levels. It results in a continuum of inclusion/exclusion characterized by unequal access to resources, capabilities and rights which leads to health inequalities. (https://www.who.int/social_determinants/knowledge_networks/final_reports/sekn_final%20report_04 2008.pdf.)
Preferred term Social Exclusion
Entry term(s) Exclusion, Social
Exclusions, Social
Social Exclusions



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