Open AccessGlobal 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