Structured Summary
Abstract
Men and women working in the provision of health services, whether as individual practitioners or employees of health institutions and programs, whether or not professionally trained, and whether or not subject to public regulation. (From A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)
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Classification
Broader headings
Narrower headings
- Allied Health Personnel
- Anatomists
- Anesthetists
- Audiologists
- Caregivers
- Case Managers
- Coroners and Medical Examiners
- Dental Faculty
- Dental Staff
- Doulas
- Emergency Medical Dispatcher
- Epidemiologists
- Health Educators
- Health Facility Administrators
- Hospital Personnel
- Infection Control Practitioners
- Medical Chaperones
- Medical Faculty
- Medical Laboratory Personnel
- Medical Staff
- Nurses
- Nursing Faculty
- Nursing Staff
- Nutritionists
- Occupational Therapists
- Optometrists
- Pharmacists
- Physical Therapists
- Physician Executives
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Respiratory Therapists
- Traditional Medicine Practitioners
- Veterinarians
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Synonyms
12 entry terms
- Health Care Providers
- Healthcare Providers
- Healthcare Workers
- Health Care Provider
- Healthcare Provider
- Healthcare Worker
- Personnel, Health
- Provider, Health Care
- Provider, Healthcare
- Health Care Professionals
- Health Care Professional
- Professional, Health Care
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Aspects Covered
11 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, psychology, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
persons working in the field of health: do not confuse with HEALTH WORKFORCE, the availability of HEALTH PERSONNEL
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History Note
1992; was NON MESH 1966-91; was see HEALTH MANPOWER 1989-91
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Previous Indexing
- Health Manpower (1966-1991)
MeSH Hierarchy
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AMA Style
References
- National Library of Medicine. Health Personnel. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006282. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006282
- Health Personnel. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59283400