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Descriptor English: Minority Groups
Descriptor Spanish: Grupos Minoritarios
Descriptor grupos minoritarios
Scope note: Subgrupo de un grupo mayor, con características especiales que con frecuencia se vinculan entre sí por lazos especiales que les distinguen del grupo mayor.
Descriptor Portuguese: Grupos Minoritários
Descriptor French: Minorités
Entry term(s): Group, Minority
Groups, Minority
Minority Group
Tree number(s): I01.880.853.300
SP3.522.561.162.300
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008913
Scope note: A subgroup having special characteristics within a larger group, often bound together by special ties which distinguish it from the larger group.
Annotation: IM; coord with specific minority group (IM) & geog
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
ED education
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
Previous Indexing: Attitude (1966-1967)
Blacks (1966-1967)
Jews (1966-1967)
Prejudice (1966-1967)
Public MeSH Note: 1968
History Note: 1968
Related: Minority Health MeSH
DeCS ID: 9101
Unique ID: D008913
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1968/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2010/06/25
Minority Groups - Preferred
Concept UI M0013915
Scope note A subgroup having special characteristics within a larger group, often bound together by special ties which distinguish it from the larger group.
Preferred term Minority Groups
Entry term(s) Group, Minority
Groups, Minority
Minority Group



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