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Descriptor English: Deinstitutionalization
Descriptor Spanish: Desinstitucionalización
Descriptor desinstitucionalización
Scope note: Práctica en la que se prestan cuidados a las personas en una comunidad en vez de hacerlo en un ambiente institucional, con los consiguientes efectos sobre el individuo, la familia del individuo, la comunidad y el sistema de atención sanitaria.
Descriptor Portuguese: Desinstitucionalização
Descriptor French: Désinstitutionnalisation
Entry term(s): Deinstitutionalized Person
Deinstitutionalized Persons
Person, Deinstitutionalized
Persons, Deinstitutionalized
Tree number(s): E02.760.415.280
N02.421.585.415.280
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003688
Scope note: The practice of caring for individuals in the community, rather than in an institutional environment with resultant effects on the individual, the individual's family, the community, and the health care system.
Annotation: "caring for individuals in the community, rather than in an institutional environment"
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
DeCS ID: 3702
Unique ID: D003688
NLM Classification: W 84.7
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1979/01/01
Date of Entry: 1978/05/08
Revision Date: 2015/06/29
Deinstitutionalization - Preferred
Concept UI M0005767
Scope note The practice of caring for individuals in the community, rather than in an institutional environment with resultant effects on the individual, the individual's family, the community, and the health care system.
Preferred term Deinstitutionalization
Deinstitutionalized Persons - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0005768
Preferred term Deinstitutionalized Persons
Entry term(s) Deinstitutionalized Person
Person, Deinstitutionalized
Persons, Deinstitutionalized



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