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Descriptor English: Burkina Faso
Descriptor Spanish: Burkina Faso
Descriptor Burkina Faso
Entry term(s) Alto Volta
Scope note: República de África occidental, al sur y este de MALI y al oeste de NÍGER. Su capital es Ouagadougou. Hasta 1984 se denominaba Alto Volta.
Descriptor Portuguese: Burkina Faso
Descriptor French: Burkina
Entry term(s): Burkina Faso
Haute-Volta
Tree number(s): Z01.058.290.190.245
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002050
Scope note: A republic in western Africa, south and east of MALI and west of NIGER. Its capital is Ouagadougou. It was formerly called Upper Volta until 1984.
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnologie
EP épidémiologie
DeCS ID: 19025
Unique ID: D002050
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1986/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Burkina - Preferred
Concept UI M0003057
Preferred term Burkina
Entry term(s) Burkina Faso
Haute-Volta



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