Key:disease:*

Prefix disease:*
Description
Specify to which medical diseases an object is related
Group: health
Used on these elements
Useful combination
medical_system:*=* health_facility:type=* or health_person:type=* or health_amenity:*=* or health_service:*=*
Status: proposed
taginfo: disease:*

This page describes a key prefix rather than a simple 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.