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Population Health

"Population Health" 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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The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group. These populations are often geographic regions, such as nations or communities, but they can also be other groups. (From Am J Public Health. 2003 March; 93(3): 380–383)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Population Health" by people in this website by year, and whether "Population Health" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 15 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2019 and 2022
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