Medical Missions

Preferred Label : Medical Missions;

MeSH definition : Travel by a group of physicians for the purpose of making a special study or undertaking a special project of short-term duration.; Travel by a group for the purpose of undertaking a health-care related project of short-term duration.;

MeSH synonym : Medical Mission; Mission, Medical; Missions, Medical;

CISMeF synonym : medical missions, official;

Wikipedia automatic translation : Médecins Sans Frontières;

MeSH hyponym : Official Medical Missions; Medical Mission, Official; Mission, Official Medical; Official Medical Mission; Missions, Official Medical; Medical Mission, Short-term; Mission, Short-term Medical; Missions, Short-term Medical; Short-term Medical Mission; Short term Medical Missions; Medical Missions, Short-term; Medical Missions, Short term;

MeSH annotation : RELIGIOUS MISSIONS and MISSIONARIES are also available;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Médecins Sans Frontières;

Details

Origin ID

D008493;

UMLS CUI

C4552767;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- supply and distribution [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Metaterm(s)
- humanitarian medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- Medical Missions [MeSH concept]
- Short-term Medical Missions [MeSH concept]
- medical missions, official [MeSH concept]
See also
- Missionaries [MeSH Descriptor]
- Religious Missions [MeSH Descriptor]
- Union of South American Nations [DeCS]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- disasters [MeSH Descriptor]
- war crimes [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]

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