Health Care

Occupations

Crafts, trades, professions, or other means of earning a living.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Crafts, trades, professions, or other means of earning a living.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Occupation
  • Vocations
  • Vocation

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Aspects Covered

8 allowable subheadings

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

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Indexing Annotation

differentiate from OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS: OCCUPATIONS is for the occupation itself, OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS is for the collective members of an occupation; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE and OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES are also available

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History Note

68; was OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS 1963-67

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Tree Number

  1. N01.824w.547

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Occupations. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009790. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009790
  2. Occupations. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12737077