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... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Sex Distribution
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Sex Distribution
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Sex Distribution
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Preferred term

Sex Distribution  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • usually NIM; human & animal; do not confuse with SEX FACTORS

Scope note

  • The number of males and females in a given population. The distribution may refer to how many men or women or what proportion of either in the group. The population is usually patients with a specific disease but the concept is not restricted to humans and is not restricted to medicine.

History note

  • 94

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017678

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