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Self Care

"Self Care" 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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Performance of activities or tasks traditionally performed by professional health care providers. The concept includes care of oneself or one's family and friends.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Self Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Self Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 107 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2014 and 2015
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