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Universal Health Insurance MeSH Descriptor Data 2025


MeSH Heading
Universal Health Insurance
Tree Number(s)
N03.219.521.576.265.500
Unique ID
D019472
RDF Unique Identifier
http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019472
Scope Note
Health insurance coverage for all persons in a state or country, rather than for some subset of the population. It may extend to the unemployed as well as to the employed; to aliens as well as to citizens; for pre-existing conditions as well as for current illnesses; for mental as well as for physical conditions.
Entry Term(s)
Universal Coverage
Public MeSH Note
2019; see Universal Coverage 1997-2018
History Note
2019(1997)
Date Established
1997/01/01
Date of Entry
1996/06/10
Revision Date
2019/07/05
Universal Health Insurance Preferred
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