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    • MeSH Population Groups (Type 5 SCR)

    Metadata Updated: June 19, 2025

    Working with partners across NIH, led by NIMHD and the NLM OBSSR-Behavioral Ontology Working Group, MeSH on November 29, 2022 added Federally recognized American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) tribal names and ethnic/ethnolinguistic minority terms as newly created type 5 SCR designated as “Population Groups”. These minority names (1,700+ terms) were mapped and reviewed by subject matter experts and scientists within NIH and from outside including Network of the National Library of Medicine members.

    Structure: All type 5 SCRs have common fields 1. CC=5 Population Group 2. ST=T098 Population Groups 3. HM= At least one HM is to an MH under Population Groups [M01.686] 4. TH= NIMHD(2023)

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date March 11, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date June 19, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 11, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date June 19, 2025
    Publisher National Library of Medicine
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://datadiscovery.nlm.nih.gov/api/views/3nrv-cydv
    Data First Published 2023-03-03
    Data Last Modified 2025-06-18
    Category Terminology
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:25
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 74844e4d-2832-4e90-bba7-d36608b1e055
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://datadiscovery.nlm.nih.gov/d/3nrv-cydv
    License http://opendefinition.org/licenses/odc-odbl/
    Program Code 009:041
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 25adbe353ae86c98dbce89cd1f37dd8847682915e681759ed20ca3aa0c6965f1
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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