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Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Hygiene
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Hygiene
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Hygiene
Therapeutics > Hygiene

Preferred term

Hygiene  

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Note

  • hygiene as a principle & personal hygiene go here; dental hygiene = DENTAL HYGIENE see ORAL HYGIENE; industrial hygiene = INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE see OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; mental hygiene = MENTAL HYGIENE see MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY HYGIENE is also available

Scope note

  • The science dealing with the establishment and maintenance of health in the individual and the group. It includes the conditions and practices conducive to health. (Webster, 3d ed)

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