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Medically Underserved Area

"Medically Underserved Area" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A geographic location which has insufficient health resources (manpower and/or facilities) to meet the medical needs of the resident population.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Medically Underserved Area" by people in this website by year, and whether "Medically Underserved Area" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 21 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2018
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