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Social Welfare

"Social Welfare" 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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Organized institutions which provide services to ameliorate conditions of need or social pathology in the community.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Social Welfare" by people in this website by year, and whether "Social Welfare" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 16 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2005 and 2007 and 2011
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