The UN might have something useful. Here is a guide to some of their
vocabs: http://research.un.org/en/un-resources/terminology
The first one, AGROVOC, seems like it might help:
http://aims.fao.org/vest-registry/vocabularies/agrovoc-multilingual-agricultural-thesaurus

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:49 AM, [log in to unmask] <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Jacob,
>
> You could try browsing Linked Open Vocabularies:
> http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/vocabs?&tag=Health
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Jacob Ratliff <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > MeSH is a little helpful, but it is slightly different than the realm of
> >  public health, which spends a lot of time on the systems surrounding
> > health, as well as the health areas themselves. (e.g. Pharmacy supply
> chain
> > management). That's the direction I'm heading though!
> >
> > Jacob
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Carol Bean <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > MeSH?
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > > > On Mar 14, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Jacob Ratliff <[log in to unmask]>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I currently work in an International public health non-profit, and we
> > > are setting up enterprise wide document management for dealing with
> > > Knowledge Management and Information Management issues. Lots of moving
> > > pieces, but I wanted to get some input on metadata specific to the
> > > medical/health world. I am looking for some metadata guidance
> > specifically
> > > related to the medical/health world. Is anyone using any standard
> > > controlled vocabularies? Should I be looking into Linked Data? I'm
> > starting
> > > off the research phase for all of the metadata, so links to resources
> and
> > > case studies is greatly helpful!
> > > >
> > > > Bonus points to anything that is international in scope, as over 75%
> of
> > > the employees at my company are non-US based (most of them in Africa).
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Jacob Ratliff
> > > > Information Architect / UX Specialsit
> > > > Management Sciences for Health
> > > > [log in to unmask]
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Tod Robbins
> Digital Asset Manager, MLIS
> todrobbins.com | @todrobbins <http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins>
>



-- 
Laura Buchholz
Digital Projects Librarian
Reed College Library
503-517-7629
[log in to unmask]