"Commerce" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale, between different countries or between populations within the same country. It includes trade (the buying, selling, or exchanging of commodities, whether wholesale or retail) and business (the purchase and sale of goods to make a profit). (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed, p411, p2005 & p283)
| Descriptor ID |
D003132
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| MeSH Number(s) |
J01.219
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| Concept/Terms |
Commercial Sector- Commercial Sector
- Commercial Sectors
- Sector, Commercial
- Sectors, Commercial
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Commerce" by people in Profiles.
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Cigarette Prices and Smoking Experimentation Among Zimbabwean Children: A Survival Analysis of the 2014 Global Youth Tobacco Survey. Nicotine Tob Res. 2024 Aug 22; 26(9):1218-1224.
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Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health. Lancet. 2023 04 08; 401(10383):1194-1213.
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Effect of price on the decision to experiment with cigarette smoking among Gambian children: a survival analysis using the Gambia 2017 Global Youth Tobacco Survey data. BMJ Open. 2022 11 08; 12(11):e061045.
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Effect of relative income price on smoking initiation among adolescents in Ghana: evidence from pseudo-longitudinal data. BMJ Open. 2022 03 16; 12(3):e054367.
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Estimating the price elasticity of demand for cigarettes in South Africa using the Deaton approach. BMJ Open. 2021 12 17; 11(12):e046279.
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Effects of foreign direct investment and trade on the prevalence of tobacco consumption in Africa: a panel study. Global Health. 2021 10 19; 17(1):122.
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Global public health starts at home: upstream approaches to global health training. Lancet Glob Health. 2019 03; 7(3):e301-e302.
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Sugary beverage taxation in South Africa: Household expenditure, demand system elasticities, and policy implications. Prev Med. 2017 Dec; 105S:S26-S31.
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Collective efficacy, alcohol outlet density, and young men's alcohol use in rural South Africa. Health Place. 2015 Jul; 34:190-8.
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Relationship between community-level alcohol outlet accessibility and individual-level herpes simplex virus type 2 infection among young women in South Africa. Sex Transm Dis. 2015 May; 42(5):259-65.