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Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Age Factors
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Age Factors
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Age Factors
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Quality of Health Care > Epidemiologic Factors > Age Factors
Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Quality of Health Care > Epidemiologic Factors > Age Factors

Preferred term

Age Factors  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Age Reporting

Note

  • usually NIM; human & animal; do not confuse with AGE DISTRIBUTION or AGING

Scope note

  • Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.

History note

  • 68; AGE-SEX DISTRIBUTION was see AGE FACTORS 1990-92

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000367

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