PREFERRED TERM
Health Occupations
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
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
- Health Profession
- Health Professions
- Profession, Health
- Professions, Health
NOTE
- the occup themselves: do not confuse with OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH (see note there); SPEC: SPEC qualif; ALLIED HEALTH OCCUPATIONS is also available; for health aides try HEALTH MANPOWER or ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL or PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS; DF: HEALTH OCCUP
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
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006281
EXACTLY MATCHING CONCEPTS
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