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Descriptor English: Health Personnel
Descriptor Spanish: Personal de Salud
Descriptor personal sanitario
Entry term(s) personal sanitario y de investigación
prestadores de servicios sanitarios
profesionales sanitarios
proveedores de asistencia sanitaria
proveedores de atención a la salud
proveedores de cuidados sanitarios
trabajadores de la salud
Scope note: Personal que trabaja en la prestación de servicios sanitarios, por cuenta ajena o como empleado de instituciones y programas sanitarios, con o sin cualificación profesional y sometidos o no a un régimen público. (Traducción libre del original: A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)
Descriptor Portuguese: Pessoal de Saúde
Descriptor French: Personnel de santé
Entry term(s): Health Care Professional
Health Care Professionals
Health Care Provider
Health Care Providers
Healthcare Provider
Healthcare Providers
Healthcare Worker
Healthcare Workers
Personnel, Health
Professional, Health Care
Provider, Health Care
Provider, Healthcare
Providers, Health Care
Providers, Healthcare
Tree number(s): M01.526.485
N02.360
SH1.030.020.020.010
VS3.004.001
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006282
Scope note: Men and women working in the provision of health services, whether as individual practitioners or employees of health institutions and programs, whether or not professionally trained, and whether or not subject to public regulation. (From A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)
Annotation: persons working in the field of health: do not confuse with HEALTH WORKFORCE, the availability of HEALTH PERSONNEL
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
OG organization & administration
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Health Manpower (1966-1991)
Public MeSH Note: 1992; was see HEALTH MANPOWER 1989-91
Online Note: pre-explosion = HEALTH PERSONNEL (PX)
History Note: 1992; was NON MESH 1966-91; was see HEALTH MANPOWER 1989-91
DeCS ID: 30349
Unique ID: D006282
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2020/05/27
Health Personnel - Preferred
Concept UI M0009859
Scope note Men and women working in the provision of health services, whether as individual practitioners or employees of health institutions and programs, whether or not professionally trained, and whether or not subject to public regulation. (From A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)
Preferred term Health Personnel
Entry term(s) Health Care Provider
Health Care Providers
Healthcare Provider
Healthcare Providers
Healthcare Worker
Healthcare Workers
Personnel, Health
Provider, Health Care
Provider, Healthcare
Providers, Health Care
Providers, Healthcare
Health Care Professionals - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000733077
Preferred term Health Care Professionals
Entry term(s) Health Care Professional
Professional, Health Care



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