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Descriptor English: Health Equity
Descriptor Spanish: Equidad en Salud
Descriptor equidad en salud
Entry term(s) equidad en materia de salud
Scope note: Oportunidad para alcanzar pleno potencial de salud y que nadie esté en desventaja de alcanzar este potencial debido a su posición social o cualquier otra circunstancia determinada socialmente.
Descriptor Portuguese: Equidade em Saúde
Descriptor French: Équité en santé
Entry term(s): Equity, Health
Tree number(s): N04.590.374.350.500
N05.300.430.383
SP1.852.365
SP2.070.578
SP9.242.315.475.156.606
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000069576
Scope note: Opportunity to attain full health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of their social position or other socially determined circumstance.
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: 2016
History Note: 2016
DeCS ID: 33941
Unique ID: D000069576
NLM Classification: W 76
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2016/01/01
Date of Entry: 2015/07/01
Revision Date: 2015/06/29
Health Equity - Preferred
Concept UI M000606118
Scope note Opportunity to attain full health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of their social position or other socially determined circumstance.
Preferred term Health Equity
Entry term(s) Equity, Health



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