Health Care

Household Work

Household work including physical, emotional, and spiritual integrating household work with care work whether on a paid or unpaid basis.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Household work including physical, emotional, and spiritual integrating household work with care work whether on a paid or unpaid basis.

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Synonyms

9 entry terms
  • Household Activity
  • Housekeeping
  • Housework
  • Activities, Household
  • Activity, Household
  • Household Activities
  • Household Works
  • Work, Household
  • Works, Household

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Aspects Covered

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

not restricted to domestic housekeeping; HOUSEKEEPING, HOSPITAL is also available

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History Note

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Tree Number

  1. N02.508w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Household Work. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006796. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006796
  2. Household Work. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housekeeping
  3. Household Work. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708514