Structured Summary
Abstract
Situations affecting a significant number of people, that are believed to be sources of difficulty or threaten the stability of the community, and that require programs of amelioration.
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Classification
Broader headings
Narrower headings
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Bullying
- Child Labor
- Civil Disorders
- Crime
- Dangerous Behavior
- Divorce
- Doping in Sports
- Emotional Abuse
- Homicide
- Human Rights Abuses
- Illegitimacy
- Incarceration
- Incest
- Incivility
- Juvenile Delinquency
- Needle Sharing
- Parental Death
- Poverty
- Pseudoscience
- Quackery
- Runaway Behavior
- Self-Neglect
- Sex Work
- Social Behavior Disorders
- Social Segregation
- Suicide
- Underage Drinking
- Violence
- Warfare and Armed Conflicts
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Synonyms
8 entry terms
- Problem, Social
- Problems, Social
- Social Problem
- Labor Exploitation
- Social Exploitation
- Exploitation, Labor
- Exploitation, Social
- Exploitations, Labor
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Aspects Covered
10 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
specify geographic location if pertinent
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History Note
68
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Previous Indexing
- Alcoholism (1966-1967)
- Antisocial Personality Disorder (1966-1967)
- Juvenile Delinquency (1966-1967)
- Prostitution (1966-1967)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Social Problems. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012940. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012940
- Social Problems. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_issue
- Social Problems. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1920219