Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Medical Missions

Travel by a group for the purpose of undertaking a health-care related project of short-term duration.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Travel by a group for the purpose of undertaking a health-care related project of short-term duration.

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Synonyms

17 entry terms
  • Medical Mission
  • Mission, Medical
  • Missions, Medical
  • Medical Missions, Official
  • Medical Missions, Short-term
  • Missions, Official Medical
  • Official Medical Missions
  • Short-term Medical Missions
  • Medical Mission, Official
  • Medical Mission, Short-term
  • Medical Missions, Short term
  • Mission, Official Medical
  • Mission, Short-term Medical
  • Missions, Short-term Medical
  • Official Medical Mission
  • Short term Medical Missions
  • Short-term Medical Mission

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

RELIGIOUS MISSIONS and MISSIONARIES are also available

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History Note

2019(1966)

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Tree Number

  1. I01w.615.500.750

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NLM Classification

W 323

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Medical Missions. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008493. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008493
  2. Medical Missions. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70014279