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Descriptor English: Latin America
Descriptor Spanish: América Latina
Descriptor Latinoamérica
Entry term(s) América Latina
Scope note: Área geográfica de México, América Central, el continente sudamericano y las islas del Caribe en la que se habla español u otra lengua romance.
Descriptor Portuguese: América Latina
Descriptor French: Amérique latine
Tree number(s): Z01.107.424
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007843
Scope note: The geographic area of Mexico, Central America, continent of South America and the islands of the Caribbean where Spanish or other Romance language is spoken.
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specific country
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
History Note: 75
DeCS ID: 8022
Unique ID: D007843
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1975/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1991/11/26
Latin America - Preferred
Concept UI M0012257
Scope note The geographic area of Mexico, Central America, continent of South America and the islands of the Caribbean where Spanish or other Romance language is spoken.
Preferred term Latin America



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