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Descriptor English: Universal Health Insurance
Descriptor Spanish: Cobertura Universal del Seguro de Salud
Descriptor cobertura universal del seguro de salud
Entry term(s) aseguramiento universal de salud
cobertura de salud universal
cobertura universal
seguro de salud universal
seguro sanitario universal
Scope note: Cobertura de la salud para todas las personas en un estado o país, no para un sector de la población. Puede abarcar tanto a los desempleados como a los empleados, a los extranjeros y a los nacionales, a enfermedades preexistentes y a enfermedades actuales, a enfermedades mentales y a enfermedades físicas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cobertura Universal do Seguro de Saúde
Descriptor French: Couverture maladie universelle
Entry term(s): Coverage, Universal
Health Insurance, Universal
Insurance, Universal Health
Universal Coverage
Tree number(s): N03.219.521.576.265.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019472
Scope note: Health insurance coverage for all persons in a state or country, rather than for some subset of the population. It may extend to the unemployed as well as to the employed; to aliens as well as to citizens; for pre-existing conditions as well as for current illnesses; for mental as well as for physical conditions.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 97
History Note: 97
DeCS ID: 33206
Unique ID: D019472
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1997/01/01
Date of Entry: 1996/06/10
Revision Date: 2018/02/01
Universal Health Insurance - Preferred
Concept UI M0028964
Scope note Health insurance coverage for all persons in a state or country, rather than for some subset of the population. It may extend to the unemployed as well as to the employed; to aliens as well as to citizens; for pre-existing conditions as well as for current illnesses; for mental as well as for physical conditions.
Preferred term Universal Health Insurance
Entry term(s) Coverage, Universal
Health Insurance, Universal
Insurance, Universal Health
Universal Coverage



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