| LC control no. | sh 85062393 |
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| Topical heading | Mobile hospitals |
| Variant(s) | Field hospitals Health clinics, Mobile Health units, Mobile Hospitals, Mobile MHCs (Mobile health clinics) Mobile clinics Mobile health clinics Mobile health units Mobile medical clinics Portable hospitals |
| See also | Clinics Hospitals |
| Found in | MeSH (Mobile health units) Taqyīm khidmāt tanẓīm al-usrah, 2019: v. 1, t.p. (al-ʻIyādāt al-mutanaqqilah [mobile clinics]; volume deals with mobile birth control clinics in Egypt) Mobile clinics, via World Health Organization website, Oct. 10, 2022 (WHO and its many partners regularly deploy mobile clinics and medical teams to reach people cut off from access to health services; for many people, these mobile clinics and teams may be their only source of health care; mobile clinics offer flexible and viable options for treating isolated and vulnerable groups as well as newly displaced populations; when coordinating crisis response, WHO arranges for mobile health care teams to go by foot, bike, moto, boat or vehicle) Yu, S. The scope and impact of mobile health clinics in the United States, via National Library of Medicine website, Oct. 10, 2022 (this article examines the available literature on mobile health clinics (MHCs) and the role that they currently play in the U.S. healthcare system) Malone, N. Mobile health clinics in the United States, via International journal for equity in health website, Oct. 10, 2022 (Mobile health clinics serve an important role in the health care system, providing care to some of the most vulnerable populations; A mobile clinic is a customized motor vehicle that travels to communities to provide health care. They deliver a wide variety of health services and may be staffed by a combination of physicians, nurses, community health workers, and other health professionals; Mobile health units help underserved communities overcome common barriers to accessing health care including time, geography, and trust, and have demonstrated improvements in health outcomes and reductions in costs) Mobile medical care for people living homeless, via King County [Washington] website, Oct. 10, 2022 (the program brings mobile medical clinics to free meal programs, food banks, and encampments throughout Seattle and South King County) MeSH browser, Oct. 10, 2022 (Mobile Health Units. SN Movable or portable facilities in which diagnostic and therapeutic services are provided to the community. UF Field Hospitals; Mobile Clinics; Mobile Health Vans; Mobile Hospitals. In MeSH Tree Structures under Hospitals and under Diagnostic Services) Thesaurus for graphic materials, via LC Linked Data Service, Oct. 10, 2022 (Mobile health units. UF Health units, Mobile. BT Vehicles. RT Ambulances; Clinics; Health care) Lokare, V. Concept of mobile hospital design, 2021, via LinkedIn website, viewed Feb. 7, 2023 (A mobile hospital is a movable hospital, a small center providing services to a patient that is wounded or critical conditions. A mobile hospital is a unit of modular that every part of it is on the wheel. Mobile hospitals can be moved to a location to location although all the required space and necessary equipment are available; different types: Corridor trailers; Utility trailers; Medical trailers; Mobile hospitals may include every aspect of a permanent hospital from waiting gift shops to surgical suits with 4 operation theatres, pharmacies, and labs; the trailer may be outfitted for an imaging suite, a mobile health clinic, and even an emergency suite with 2 trauma bays with 8 urgent care beds; may also be equipped with mobile beds) Indiana Dept. of Health website, Feb. 7, 2023: Emergency preparedness > Mobile hospital (The mobile hospital consists of a six (6) unit Western Shelter field hospital, capable of 50 beds. The mobile hospital is split equally into three (3) trailers, allowing for multiple locations or scalable responses. The mobile hospital can support a variety of missions including hospital evacuations, vaccination clinics, medical surges, point of dispensing, alternate care sites, sheltering and several others. Each trailer contains lighting, generators, HVAC, communications equipment and medical supplies to support a variety of applications) |
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