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Descriptor English: Stalking
Descriptor Spanish: Acecho
Descriptor acecho obsesivo
Entry term(s) persecución
Scope note: Comportamiento dirigido a una persona específica, que implica proximidad visual o física repetida (dos o más veces), comunicación no consensuada o amenazas verbales, escritas o implícitas, o una combinación de todas ellas, que causarían temor a una persona sensata.
Descriptor Portuguese: Perseguição
Descriptor French: Harcèlement
Entry term(s): Stalkings
Tree number(s): F01.145.126.950.500
I01.880.735.223.500
SP3.311.900.686.528
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D055807
Scope note: Course of conduct directed at a specific person that involves repeated (two or more occasions) visual or physical proximity, nonconsensual communication, or verbal, written, or implied threats, or a combination thereof, that would cause a reasonable person fear.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 2009
History Note: 2009
DeCS ID: 53260
Unique ID: D055807
NLM Classification: WM 165
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2009/01/01
Date of Entry: 2008/07/08
Stalking - Preferred
Concept UI M0520729
Scope note Course of conduct directed at a specific person that involves repeated (two or more occasions) visual or physical proximity, nonconsensual communication, or verbal, written, or implied threats, or a combination thereof, that would cause a reasonable person fear.
Preferred term Stalking
Entry term(s) Stalkings



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