Concept information
Preferred term
Health Occupations
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Narrower concepts
- Acupuncture
- Allied Health Occupations
- Biomedical Engineering
- Chiropractic
- Dentistry
- Environmental Health
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Health Services Administration
- Medical Illustration
- Medicine
- Mortuary Practice
- Nursing, Practical
- Nutritional Sciences
- Optometry
- Orthoptics
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacy
- Podiatry
- Psychology, Medical
- Serology
- Sociology, Medical
- Specialization
- Toxicology
- Veterinary Medicine
Entry terms
- Health Profession
- Health Professions
- Profession, Health
- Professions, Health
Note
- do not confuse with OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ALLIED HEALTH OCCUPATIONS is also available; for health aides consider HEALTH WORKFORCE or ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL or specifics
Scope note
- 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.
History note
- 68; was HEALTH PROFESSIONS 1963-67
In other languages
-
Finnish
-
terveydenhuollon ammatti
-
Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006281
{{label}}
{{#each values }} {{! loop through ConceptPropertyValue objects }}
{{#if prefLabel }}
{{/if}}
{{/each}}
{{#if notation }}{{ notation }} {{/if}}{{ prefLabel }}
{{#ifDifferentLabelLang lang }} ({{ lang }}){{/ifDifferentLabelLang}}
{{#if vocabName }}
{{ vocabName }}
{{/if}}