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MeSH Heading: Health Personnel
Tree Number(s): M01.526.485; N02.360
Unique ID: D006282
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006282
Annotation: persons working in the field of health: do not confuse with HEALTH WORKFORCE, the availability of HEALTH PERSONNEL
Scope Note: 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)
Entry Term(s): Health Care Professionals; Health Care Providers; Healthcare Providers; Healthcare Workers
Previous Indexing: Health Manpower (1966-1991)
Public MeSH Note: 1992; was see HEALTH MANPOWER 1989-91
Online Note: pre-explosion = HEALTH PERSONNEL (PX)
History Note: 1992; was NON MESH 1966-91; was see HEALTH MANPOWER 1989-91
Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2021/05/12

Allowable Qualifiers: classification (CL)

economics (EC)

education (ED)

ethics (ES)

history (HI)

legislation & jurisprudence (LJ)

organization & administration (OG)

psychology (PX)

standards (ST)

statistics & numerical data (SN)

trends (TD)

Concept UI: M0009859
Scope Note: 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)
Terms: Health Personnel Preferred Term
Term UI T019031
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID; Healthcare Workers
Term UI T000908405
Date09/30/2016
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2018); Health Care Providers
Term UI T019032
Date04/22/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Healthcare Providers
Term UI T019033
Date01/10/1997
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1998)

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