Health Care

Medical Economics

Economic aspects of the field of medicine, the medical profession, and health care. It includes the economic and financial impact of disease in general on the patient, the physician, society, or government.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Economic aspects of the field of medicine, the medical profession, and health care. It includes the economic and financial impact of disease in general on the patient, the physician, society, or government.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Economics, Medical

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8 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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general or unspecified; prefer /econ with specific subject

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  1. N03w.219w.300w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Medical Economics. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004470. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004470
  2. Medical Economics. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_economics
  3. Medical Economics. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31218