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The study of the social determinants and social effects of health and disease, and of the social structure of medical institutions or professions.

Ability to determine the specific location of a sound source.

The awareness of the spatial properties of objects; includes physical space.

Reactions of an individual or groups of individuals with relation to the immediate surrounding area including the animate or inanimate objects within…

A process through which individuals encode information about their environmental CUES to facilitate SPATIAL NAVIGATION.

Memory related to spatial information.

Process by which organisms use various cues to develop a route to a destination and their ability to travel such a planned route.

Integration of spatial information perceived by visual and/or auditory CUES.

Communication through a system of conventional vocal symbols.

Ability to make speech sounds that are recognizable.

The process whereby an utterance is decoded into a representation in terms of linguistic units (sequences of phonetic segments which combine to form …

Sensitivity or attachment to religious values, or to things of the spirit as opposed to material or worldly interests. (from Merriam-Webster's Colleg…

Married persons, i.e., husbands and wives, or partners. Domestic partners, or spousal equivalents, are two adults who have chosen to share their live…

Course of conduct directed at a specific person that involves repeated (two or more occasions) visual or physical proximity, nonconsensual communicat…

An individual intelligence test designed primarily for school children to predict school performance and the ability to adjust to everyday demands.

Perception of shape and form of objects by TOUCH and KINESTHESIS, via tactile stimuli.

Relatively invariant mode of behavior elicited or determined by a particular situation; may be verbal, postural, or expressive.

An oversimplified perception or conception especially of persons, social groups, etc.

Stress wherein emotional factors predominate.

Timed test in which the subject must read a list of words or identify colors presented with varying instructions and different degrees of distraction…

Individuals who leave school, secondary or college, prior to completion of specified curriculum requirements.

Perceptions of PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS based on the individual's own personal values, beliefs and past and current experiences and circumstances.

A defense mechanism through which unacceptable impulses and instinctive urges are diverted into personally and socially acceptable channels; e.g., ag…

Stimulation at an intensity below that where a differentiated response can be elicited.

Any suction exerted by the mouth; response of the mammalian infant to draw milk from the breast. Includes sucking on inanimate objects. Not to be use…

The uncritical acceptance of an idea or plan of action.

A risk factor for suicide attempts and completions, it is the most common of all suicidal behavior, but only a minority of ideators engage in overt s…

The act of killing oneself.

Specific strategies for averting suicides. These include mental HEALTH PROMOTION and monitoring PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING and other intervention progr…

Provision (by a physician or other health professional, or by a family member or friend) of support and/or means that gives a patient the power to te…