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Descriptor English: Health Inequities
Descriptor Spanish: Inequidades en Salud
Descriptor inequidades en la salud
Entry term(s) desigualdad de salud
desigualdades de salud
disparidad de salud
disparidad en la salud
disparidades de salud
disparidades en la salud
inequidad en la salud
Scope note: Diferencias en el estado de salud o en la distribución de los recursos sanitarios entre diferentes grupos de la población, derivadas de las condiciones sociales en las que las personas nacen, crecen, viven, trabajan y envejecen. (Traducción libre del original: https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/health-inequities-and-their-causes#:~:text=Health%20inequities%20are%20differences%20in,right%20mix%20of%20government%20policies).
Descriptor Portuguese: Desigualdades de Saúde
Descriptor French: Inégalités en matière de santé
Entry term(s): Disparity, Health
Health Disparities
Health Disparity
Health Inequalities
Health Inequity
Inequities, Health
Inequity, Health
Tree number(s): I01.240.425.513
N01.224.425.394
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000091682
Scope note: Differences in health status or in the distribution of health resources between different population groups, arising from the social conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.(https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/health-inequities-and-their-causes#:~:text=Health%20inequities%20are%20differences%20in,right%20mix%20of%20government%20policies.)
Annotation: coordinate with SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 2022
History Note: 2022
DeCS ID: 59895
Unique ID: D000091682
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Date Established: 2022/01/01
Date of Entry: 2021/07/09
Revision Date: 2023/05/31
Health Inequities - Preferred
Concept UI M000748983
Scope note Differences in health status or in the distribution of health resources between different population groups, arising from the social conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.(https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/health-inequities-and-their-causes#:~:text=Health%20inequities%20are%20differences%20in,right%20mix%20of%20government%20policies.)
Preferred term Health Inequities
Entry term(s) Health Inequalities
Health Inequity
Inequities, Health
Inequity, Health
Health Disparities - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000762307
Preferred term Health Disparities
Entry term(s) Disparity, Health
Health Disparity



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