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Descriptor English: Civil Defense
Descriptor Spanish: Defensa Civil
Descriptor defensa civil
Scope note: Medidas y programas preventivos de emergencia diseñados para proteger a la persona o a la comunidad en caso de ataques hostiles o de desastres naturales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Defesa Civil
Descriptor French: Protection civile
Entry term(s): Civil Defenses
Defense, Civil
Defenses, Civil
Tree number(s): I01.451.227
SP8.570.498.526.628.198
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002959
Scope note: Preventive emergency measures and programs designed to protect the individual or community in times of hostile attack or natural disaster.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Related: United States Department of Homeland Security MeSH
DeCS ID: 2984
Unique ID: D002959
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2007/07/09
Civil Defense - Preferred
Concept UI M0004529
Scope note Preventive emergency measures and programs designed to protect the individual or community in times of hostile attack or natural disaster.
Preferred term Civil Defense
Entry term(s) Civil Defenses
Defense, Civil
Defenses, Civil



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