Health Care

Family Health

The health status of the family as a unit including the impact of the health of one member of the family on the family as a unit and on individual family members; also, the impact of family organization or disorganization on the health status of its members.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

The health status of the family as a unit including the impact of the health of one member of the family on the family as a unit and on individual family members; also, the impact of family organization or disorganization on the health status of its members.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Health, Family

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, standards, statistics & numerical data.

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Indexing Annotation

health status of family as a unit & impact on individual members; /ethnol permitted

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History Note

91(79); was see under FAMILY 1979-90

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Previous Indexing

  • Family (1966-1978)
  • Health (1966-1978)

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. N01.400w.300

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NLM Classification

WA 308

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Family Health. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005192. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005192
  2. Family Health. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70363555