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

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

Author(s) -

Ana Marušić

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of global health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.581

H-Index - 34

eISSN - 2047-2986

pISSN - 2047-2978

DOI - 10.7189/jogh.03.010301

Subject(s) - heading (navigation) , subject (documents) , medline , visibility , global health , computer science , medicine , data science , library science , geography , political science , pathology , public health , geodesy , meteorology , law

Despite a large body of research in global health (almost 9000 articles published in PubMed until 2012), the term “global health”\udis 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\udHealth

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