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Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Quality of Health Care > Epidemiologic Factors > Sex Factors
Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Quality of Health Care > Epidemiologic Factors > Sex Factors
Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Sex Factors
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Sex Factors
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Sex Factors

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Sex Factors  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Maleness or femaleness as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from SEX CHARACTERISTICS, anatomical or physiological manifestations of sex, and from SEX DISTRIBUTION, the number of males and females in given circumstances.

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