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MeSH Terms Used in Indexing Disaster-Related Journal Articles - New in 2013

This is the list of new subject headings for 2013 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 2012 (10 terms)
• 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

Advanced Trauma Life Support Care
Chemical Safety
Community Integration
Crowdsourcing
Databases, Chemical
Epidemiological Monitoring
Field Hospitals
Food Assistance
Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Geographic Mapping
Geography, Medical
Hand Hygiene
Health Impact Assessment
Human Migration
Patient Acuity
Patient Handoff
Public Health Surveillance
Social Discrimination
Social Marginalization
Solid Waste
Strategic Stockpile
Time-to-Treatment
Waste Water

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