Global visibility for global health: Is it time for a new descriptor in Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) of MEDLINE/PubMed?

Despite a large body of research in global health (almost 9000 articles published in PubMed until 2012), the term “global health” is not included in the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of the NLM – its controlled vocabulary thesaurus which NLM uses to index articles in MEDL INE. There are only 6 jo...

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Main Author: Ana Marušic´
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh University Global Health Society 2013-06-01
Series:Journal of Global Health
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Online Access:http://www.jogh.org/documents/issue201301/V1_Marusic.pdf
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description Despite a large body of research in global health (almost 9000 articles published in PubMed until 2012), the term “global health” is not included in the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of the NLM – its controlled vocabulary thesaurus which NLM uses to index articles in MEDL INE. There are only 6 journals currently covered by PubMed which specialize in global health, including Journal of Global Health.
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spelling doaj.art-0b1ef6ee2c1643d0b5e3d5cc294c9fab2022-12-22T03:07:14ZengEdinburgh University Global Health SocietyJournal of Global Health2047-29782047-29862013-06-013110.7189/jogh.03.010301Global visibility for global health: Is it time for a new descriptor in Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) of MEDLINE/PubMed?Ana Marušic´ 0Croatian Centre for Global Health and Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, CroatiaDespite a large body of research in global health (almost 9000 articles published in PubMed until 2012), the term “global health” is not included in the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of the NLM – its controlled vocabulary thesaurus which NLM uses to index articles in MEDL INE. There are only 6 journals currently covered by PubMed which specialize in global health, including Journal of Global Health.http://www.jogh.org/documents/issue201301/V1_Marusic.pdfMEDLINEdescriptorsglobal health
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title Global visibility for global health: Is it time for a new descriptor in Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) of MEDLINE/PubMed?
title_full Global visibility for global health: Is it time for a new descriptor in Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) of MEDLINE/PubMed?
title_fullStr Global visibility for global health: Is it time for a new descriptor in Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) of MEDLINE/PubMed?
title_full_unstemmed Global visibility for global health: Is it time for a new descriptor in Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) of MEDLINE/PubMed?
title_short Global visibility for global health: Is it time for a new descriptor in Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) of MEDLINE/PubMed?
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