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MeSH Terms Used in Indexing Disaster-Related Journal Articles - New in 2012

This is the list of new subject headings for 2012 that may be useful for disaster and all-hazards preparedness and response topics.

For more information on MeSH related to disaster topics, see:

• All MeSH terms. A comprehensive list of terms intended to convey the rich diversity and broad scope of coverage of MeSH terms available to index disaster-related articles.
• MeSH terms NEW in 2011 (18 terms)
• MeSH terms NEW in 2010 (15 terms)
• MeSH terms NEW in 2009 (29 terms)
• MeSH terms NEW in 2008 (12 terms)

MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) controlled vocabulary thesaurus of descriptors in a hierarchical structure that aid searching at various levels of specificity. The MeSH thesaurus is used by NLM for indexing articles for the MEDLINE/PubMed® database. MeSH terms provide a consistent way to retrieve information that may use different terminology for the same concepts.

For additional information on MeSH, visit the following links.

• Fact Sheet Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®)
• Medical Subject Headings homepage
• PubMed MeSH Database

Disease Eradication
Drinking Water
Emergency Responders
Emergency Shelter
Firefighters
Occupational Injuries
Petroleum Pollution
Social Media
Social Networking
Text Messaging

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