Structured Summary
Abstract
The science of utilization, distribution, and consumption of services and materials.
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Classification
Broader headings
Narrower headings
- Behavioral Economics
- Capitalism
- Compensation and Redress
- Costs and Cost Analysis
- Dental Economics
- Economic Competition
- Economic Development
- Economic Inflation
- Economic Recession
- Expropriation
- External Debt
- Fees and Charges
- Financial Management
- Financial Support
- Gross Domestic Product
- Health Care Sector
- Hospital Economics
- Induced Demand
- Investments
- Medical Economics
- Medical Indigency
- Nursing Economics
- Organized Financing
- Personal Financing
- Pharmaceutical Economics
- Public Expenditures
- Resource Allocation
- Taxes
MeSH Qualifier
Used as a Subheading
Economics is also a MeSH subheading (qualifier Q000191), attached to other headings to focus them on this aspect:
Used for the economic aspects of any subject, as well as for all aspects of financial management. It includes the raising or providing of funds.
- Qualifier ID
- Q000191
- Qualifier Tree
- Y06.010
Indexing annotation
subhead only; includes "finances", "financing", "funding", "costs", "fees", "salaries", "financial management", etc.; see MeSH scope note in Introduction; indexing policy: Manual 19.8.27; DF: /econ or /EC CATALOG: may be subdivided geographically
Subheading synonyms
- cost
- fees
- finances
- financial management
- financing
- funding
- salaries
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Synonyms
37 entry terms
- Capital
- Conditions, Economic
- Consumer Price Index
- Consumption
- Cost of Living
- Easterlin Hypothesis
- Economic Conditions
- Economic Policies
- Economic Policy
- Economics, Home
- Home Economics
- Household Consumption
- Macroeconomic Factors
- Microeconomic Factors
- Policies, Economic
- Policy, Economic
- Production
- Remittances
- Utility Theory
- Condition, Economic
- Consumer Price Indices
- Consumption, Household
- Economic Condition
- Factor, Macroeconomic
- Factor, Microeconomic
- Factors, Macroeconomic
- Factors, Microeconomic
- Household Consumptions
- Hypothesis, Easterlin
- Index, Consumer Price
- Indices, Consumer Price
- Living Cost
- Living Costs
- Remittance
- Theories, Utility
- Theory, Utility
- Utility Theories
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Aspects Covered
4 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings history, legislation & jurisprudence, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
general or unspecified only: prefer /econ; note ECONOMIC FACTORS and SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS are available
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Economics. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004467. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004467
- Economics. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics
- Economics. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134