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Therapeutics > Patient Care > Institutionalization > Deinstitutionalization
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Patient Care > Institutionalization > Deinstitutionalization

Preferred term

Deinstitutionalization  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Deinstitutionalized Person
  • Deinstitutionalized Persons
  • Person, Deinstitutionalized
  • Persons, Deinstitutionalized

Note

  • "caring for individuals in the community, rather than in an institutional environment"

Scope note

  • The practice of caring for individuals in the community, rather than in an institutional environment with resultant effects on the individual, the individual's family, the community, and the health care system.

History note

  • 79

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003688

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