Health Care

Organizations

Groups of people working together in a structured manner to pursue common goals and objectives.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Groups of people working together in a structured manner to pursue common goals and objectives.

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Synonyms

10 entry terms
  • Organization
  • Non-Governmental Organizations
  • Nongovernmental Organizations
  • Organizations, Nongovernmental
  • Non Governmental Organizations
  • Non-Governmental Organization
  • Nongovernmental Organization
  • Organization, Non-Governmental
  • Organization, Nongovernmental
  • Organizations, Non-Governmental

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

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

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Indexing Annotation

general or unspecified; prefer specifics; ORGANIZATIONS tends to be for groups with a common goal based on interest, SOCIETIES tends to be for groups with common educational or professional status; specify geographic location if pertinent

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History Note

68

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Previous Indexing

  • specific organization (1966-1967)

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Tree Number

  1. N03w.540w

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Organizations. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009938. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009938
  2. Organizations. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization
  3. Organizations. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43229