{"id":30478,"date":"2013-04-18T00:51:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T00:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30478"},"modified":"2013-04-18T00:51:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T00:51:51","slug":"the-operationalization-of-race-and-ethnicity-concepts-in-medical-classification-systems-issues-of-validity-and-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30478","title":{"rendered":"The operationalization of race and ethnicity concepts in medical classification systems: issues of validity and utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1460458205055688\" target=\"_blank\">The operationalization of race and ethnicity concepts in medical classification systems: issues of validity and utility<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jhi.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Health Informatics Journal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jhi.sagepub.com\/content\/11\/4.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 11, Number 4<\/a> (December 2005)<br \/>\npages 259-274<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1460458205055688\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/1460458205055688<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/about\/emeritus\/aspinall.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter J. Aspinall<\/a><\/strong>, Emeritus Reader in Population Health<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent, UK<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article looks at the operationalization of race and ethnicity concepts in medical classification systems, notably the main bibliographical databases of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MEDLINE\" target=\"_blank\">MEDLINE<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EMBASE\" target=\"_blank\">EMBASE<\/a>. In particular, an attempt is made to assess recent changes, including the impact of the 2004 major changes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medical_Subject_Headings\" target=\"_blank\">MeSH<\/a> headings for race and ethnic groups, and the introduction of &#8216;Continental Population Groups&#8217;. The underlying conceptual basis of the typologies, their relevance for capturing specific population groups, and their overall usefulness in appraising the literature on ethnic\/racial disparities in health are examined. The bibliographical database thesauri reveal the pervasiveness of the notion of the biological basis of health differences by race\/ethnicity as well as continuing use of antiquated racial terminology. Their system-oriented terminology is likely to limit the effectiveness of retrieval by users who may lack knowledge of their hierarchical structures.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/jhi.sagepub.com\/content\/11\/4\/259.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The operationalization of race and ethnicity concepts in medical classification systems: issues of validity and utility Health Informatics Journal Volume 11, Number 4 (December 2005) pages 259-274 DOI: 10.1177\/1460458205055688 Peter J. Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Population Health University of Kent, UK This article looks at the operationalization of race and ethnicity concepts in medical classification [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8],"tags":[14431,14429,14430,61,1877],"class_list":["post-30478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-embase","tag-health-informatics-journal","tag-medline","tag-peter-aspinall","tag-peter-j-aspinall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}