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Public Policy

"Public Policy" 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 course or method of action selected, usually by a government, from among alternatives to guide and determine present and future decisions.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Public Policy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Public Policy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 46 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2005 and 2014
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