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