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... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Control, Formal > Legislation as Topic > Health Planning > National Health Programs > State Medicine
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Preferred term

State Medicine  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Medicine, Socialized
  • Medicine, State
  • Socialized Medicine

Note

  • not for medical programs of individual states; compulsory system of personal medical care under control of a national government paying physicians out of public funds; compulsory: do not confuse with NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; specify country, even GREAT BRITAIN despite entry term NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, BRITISH

Scope note

  • A system of medical care regulated, controlled and financed by the government, in which the government assumes responsibility for the health needs of the population.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013222

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