Psychiatry and Psychology

Racism

Differential treatment or unequal access to opportunities, based on group membership such as origin or ethnicity.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Differential treatment or unequal access to opportunities, based on group membership such as origin or ethnicity.

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Synonyms

14 entry terms
  • Everyday Racism
  • Racial Bias
  • Racial Discrimination
  • Racial Prejudice
  • Bias, Racial
  • Discrimination, Racial
  • Discriminations, Racial
  • Prejudice, Racial
  • Prejudices, Racial
  • Racial Discriminations
  • Racial Prejudices
  • Racism, Everyday
  • Covert Racism
  • Racism, Covert

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

for issues concerning health, coordinate with SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

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History Note

2013; use PREJUDICE 1994-2012

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Previous Indexing

  • Prejudice (1994-2012)

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  1. F01.145.813w.550w.500w
  2. F01.145.813w.629w.625w
  3. F01.829w.595w.500w
  4. I01w.880w.735w.820.500w.500w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Racism. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D063505. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D063505
  2. Racism. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
  3. Racism. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8461