Key:disease:*

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Description
Specify to which medical diseases an object is related Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: health
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)may be used on relations
Useful combination
Status: proposedPage for proposal
taginfo: disease:*

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This page describes a prefix for many keys not a single key.

disease:*=* is used to specify for which disease a health care related object is provided. This involves diagnosis, treatment, support or related services.

The key should be the common used English scientific name of the disease in lower case. For diseases you never want to get, such as AIDS, and witch are caused persisting pathogens such as viruses, you can use the name of the virus instead, which is HIV (disease:hiv=yes/no) in this example. Especially for names with consists more then three parts and which have an common used and easy to find abbreviation, this should be used. But make sure that it is non-ambiguous.