Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Fraud

Exploitation through misrepresentation of the facts or concealment of the purposes of the exploiter.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Exploitation through misrepresentation of the facts or concealment of the purposes of the exploiter.

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9 entry terms
  • Drug Counterfeiting
  • Fraud, Health Care
  • Health Care Fraud
  • Healthcare Fraud
  • Kickbacks
  • Counterfeiting, Drug
  • Fraud, Healthcare
  • Health Care Frauds
  • Kickback

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

for drug counterfeiting, coordinate with COUNTERFEIT DRUGS; FRAUD, SCIENTIFIC see SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT is also available

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History Note

1977; use CRIME 1977-1990; for KICKBACKS use CRIME 1992-1993; for DRUG COUNTERFEITING use COUNTERFEIT DRUGS 2011-2018

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Fraud. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005607. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005607
  2. Fraud. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud
  3. Fraud. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28813