MEDLINE Search Strategies: Lack of Social Connectedness

There is no Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) for "social connectedness" The MeSH that best describes this domain of knowledge might be:

social support

Sample search strategy using MeSH: To what extent does lack of social support increase the risk for premature mortality from coronary heart disease?

Searching with social support as a major topic heading AND risk AND coronary disease AND mortality produces these results.

Especially useful for answering this question is the paper by Eng et al.

Social Connectedness

Overview

Contribution to overall disease burden in SF

Downstream (Health Consequences)

What can be done?

Web resources

MEDLINE strategies

Updated August 12, 2003 • Please send feedback to Brian Katcher

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