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DB / Metadata Management Program (MMP): Using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) in Cataloging


Special Instructions

  • $x ethnology
    • In addition to being used with diseases for ethnic, cultural, or anthropological aspects, use with geographical descriptors to indicate the place of origin for a group of people living outside their native land

  • Use $x epidemiology with a geographical descriptor to indicate diseases in the place an ethnic group is currently living.

Examples

  • A work on alcoholism in Inuits living in Alaska
    • 650 _2 $a Alcoholism $x ethnology
    • 650 _2 $a Inuits
    • 651 _2 $a Alaska $x epidemiology

  • A work on obesity in Pakistanis living in England
    • 650 _2 $a Obesity $x ethnology
    • 651 _2 $a Pakistan $x ethnology
    • 651 _2 $a England $x epidemiology


Last Reviewed: July 19, 2017