Public Opinion

"Public Opinion" 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.

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The attitude of a significant portion of a population toward any given proposition, based upon a measurable amount of factual evidence, and involving some degree of reflection, analysis, and reasoning.

Descriptor ID	D011639
MeSH Number(s)	I01.880.630.548
Concept/Terms	Public Opinion Public Opinion Opinion, Public Pro-Choice Groups Pro-Choice Groups Group, Pro-Choice Groups, Pro-Choice Pro Choice Groups Pro-Choice Group Public Opinion Polls Public Opinion Polls Opinion Poll, Public Opinion Polls, Public Poll, Public Opinion Polls, Public Opinion Public Opinion Poll Interest Groups Interest Groups Group, Interest Groups, Interest Interest Group

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Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Social Sciences [I01]
Sociology [I01.880]
Social Control, Informal [I01.880.630]
Public Opinion [I01.880.630.548]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Public Opinion" by people in this website by year, and whether "Public Opinion" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 22 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2009 and 2020

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	1	0	1
2003	0	1	1
2009	1	2	3
2010	1	1	2
2013	1	0	1
2014	1	1	2
2015	1	0	1
2016	1	0	1
2017	1	0	1
2018	0	1	1
2019	0	2	2
2020	1	2	3
2021	0	2	2
2025	1	0	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Public Opinion" by people in Profiles.

Robbins R, Reuther KK, Reuther D, Ejikeme C, Johnson KG, Troxel WM, Hale L, Giuntella O, Malow BA, Barnes CM, Dzierzewski J, Rosekind M, Weaver MD, Ziporyn T, Klerman EB, Czeisler C, Ramanadhan S. Applying Design Thinking to identify strategies for enacting evidence-based policymaking supporting Standard Time. Sleep. 2025 Oct 13; 48(10).

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Robertson D. Of Mice and Schoolchildren: A Conceptual History of Herd Immunity. Am J Public Health. 2021 08; 111(8):1473-1480.

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Miller EA, Simpson E, Nadash P, Gusmano M. Thrust Into the Spotlight: COVID-19 Focuses Media Attention on Nursing Homes. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2021 03 14; 76(4):e213-e218.

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Moser RP, Arndt J, Jimenez T, Liu B, Hesse BW. Perceptions of cancer as a death sentence: Tracking trends in public perceptions from 2008 to 2017. Psychooncology. 2021 04; 30(4):511-519.

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Im GY, Mellinger JL, Winters A, Aby ES, Lominadze Z, Rice J, Lucey MR, Arab JP, Goel A, Jophlin LL, Sherman CB, Parker R, Chen PH, Devuni D, Sidhu S, Dunn W, Szabo G, Singal AK, Shah VH. Provider Attitudes and Practices for Alcohol Screening, Treatment, and Education in Patients With Liver Disease: A Survey From the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease Special Interest Group. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021 11; 19(11):2407-2416.e8.

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Desai AN, Seshasayee SM, Majumder MS, Lassmann B, Madoff LC, Cohn EL, Brownstein JS. Tuberculosis and foreign-born populations in the United States: A mixed methods pilot study of media reporting and political identification. PLoS One. 2020; 15(4):e0230967.

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Kost A, Kardonsky K, Cawse-Lucas J, Sairenji T. Association of Family Medicine Interest at Matriculation to Medical School and FMIG Participation With Eventual Practice as a Family Physician. Fam Med. 2019 Sep; 51(8):682-686.

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Corrigan PW, Qin S, Davidson L, Schomerus G, Shuman V, Smelson D. How does the public understand recovery from severe mental illness versus substance use disorder? Psychiatr Rehabil J. 2019 Dec; 42(4):341-349.

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Yun YH, Kim KN, Sim JA, Kang E, Lee J, Choo J, Yoo SH, Kim M, Kim YA, Kang BD, Shim HJ, Song EK, Kang JH, Kwon JH, Lee JL, Lee SN, Maeng CH, Kang EJ, Do YR, Choi YS, Jung KH. Priorities of a "good death" according to cancer patients, their family caregivers, physicians, and the general population: a nationwide survey. Support Care Cancer. 2018 Oct; 26(10):3479-3488.

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Moffatt-Bruce SD. Public reporting: Will this help inform what patients and families need to know? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2017 06; 153(6):1623-1626.

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