Definition
Programs that use specially equipped mobile vehicles to deliver basic health care services to vulnerable and/or remote populations that are unable to access a community health care facility. The mobile clinics make scheduled stops in different neighborhoods and offer a wide variety of services which may include general physical examinations, pediatric services, health screening, vision screening, flu shots, childhood immunizations, laboratory services, WIC certification, STD screening and treatment, family planning services, pregnancy testing and treatment for minor illnesses. Included are street medicine programs that use outreach workers to seek out and provide primary health care services for unsheltered homeless people living on the streets, under bridges, in abandoned buildings or wherever else they stay.
URL Name
LN-5000
Third Level Code
LN-5000
Taxonomy Code
LN-5000
Parent Code
LN
Family Code
L
Second Level Code
LN
Use References
Mobile Healthcare, Mobile Medical Clinics, Street Medicine, Mobile Health Vans
Publication Status
Online