Structured Summary
Abstract
Professions or other business activities directed to the cure and prevention of disease. For occupations of medical personnel who are not physicians but who are working in the fields of medical technology, physical therapy, etc., ALLIED HEALTH OCCUPATIONS is available.
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Classification
Narrower headings
- Acupuncture
- Allied Health Occupations
- Biomedical Engineering
- Chiropractic
- Dentistry
- Environmental Health
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Health Services Administration
- Hospital Administration
- Medical Illustration
- Medical Psychology
- Medical Sociology
- Medicine
- Mortuary Practice
- Nursing
- Nutritional Sciences
- Optometry
- Orthoptics
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacy
- Podiatry
- Practical Nursing
- Serology
- Specialization
- Toxicology
- Veterinary Medicine
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Synonyms
5 entry terms
- Health Professions
- Health Occupation
- Health Profession
- Profession, Health
- Professions, Health
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Aspects Covered
9 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
do not confuse with OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ALLIED HEALTH OCCUPATIONS is also available; for health aides consider HEALTH WORKFORCE or ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL or specifics
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History Note
68; was HEALTH PROFESSIONS 1963-67
MeSH Hierarchy
Tree Number
- H02w
AMA Style
References
- National Library of Medicine. Health Occupations. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006281. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006281
- Health Occupations. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_occupations
- Health Occupations. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3922583