MeSH is one of >100 health/biomedical vocabularies listed in UMLS, so I suspect there may be other vocabularies in there that are a better fit for public health:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/source_faq.html
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/sourcereleasedocs/
You may need to sign up for a free license in order to browse all vocabularies:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/umls.html
Good luck!
Karen Hanson
Research Developer
Portico
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jacob Ratliff
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 2:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Public Health Metadata
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]
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