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Descriptor English: Asian
Descriptor Spanish: Asiático
Descriptor asiático
Entry term(s) americanos asiáticos
americanos chinos
americanos coreanos
americanos de Hmong
americanos japoneses
asiaticoamericanos
asiáticos
camboyano-americanos
filipino-americanos
vietnamita-americanos
Scope note: Persona con orígenes en cualquiera de los pueblos originarios de Extremo Oriente, el Sudeste Asiático o el subcontinente indio, incluidos, por ejemplo, Camboya, China, Corea, India, las Islas Filipinas, Japón, Malasia, Pakistán, Tailandia y Vietnam (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/10/30/97-28653/revisions-to-the-standards-for-the-classification-of-federal-data-on-race-and-ethnity). En los Estados Unidos se utiliza para la clasificación de los datos del gobierno federal sobre la raza y la etnia. Los términos de raza y etnia son constructos sociales autoidentificados y pueden incluir términos obsoletos y ofensivos en el MeSH para ayudar a los usuarios que estén interesados en obtener resultados de búsquedas exhaustivas para estudios tales como estudios longitudinales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Asiático
Descriptor French: Without translation
Entry term(s): American, Cambodian
American, Korean
American, Vietnamese
Americans, Asian
Americans, Cambodian
Americans, Chinese
Americans, Filipino
Americans, Hmong
Americans, Japanese
Americans, Korean
Americans, Vietnamese
Asian American
Asian Americans
Asian Indian American
Asian Indian Americans
Cambodian American
Cambodian Americans
Chinese American
Chinese Americans
Filipino American
Filipino Americans
Hmong American
Hmong Americans
Indian American, Asian
Japanese American
Japanese Americans
Korean American
Korean Americans
Vietnamese American
Vietnamese Americans
Tree number(s): M01.270.906.375
M01.686.330.250
M01.686.477.625.594.563
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001213
Scope note: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/10/30/97-28653/revisions-to-the-standards-for-the-classification-of-federal-data-on-race-and-ethnicity). In the United States it is used for classification of federal government data on race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity terms are self-identified social construct and may include terms outdated and offensive in MeSH to assist users who are interested in retrieving comprehensive search results for studies such as in longitudinal studies.
Annotation: despite entry terms, specify CHINA /ethnol, JAPAN /ethnol, KOREA /ethnol, or other Asian country with /ethnol when pertinent
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
ED education
GE genetics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
Previous Indexing: Ethnic Groups (1968-1974)
United States (1966-1980)
specific Asia heading (1966-1974) /ethnology (1975-1980)
specific state (1966-1980)
Public MeSH Note: 2023; see ASIAN AMERICANS 1981-2022
History Note: 2023; use ASIAN AMERICANS 1981-2022
DeCS ID: 23895
Unique ID: D001213
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1981/01/01
Date of Entry: 1980/05/12
Revision Date: 2022/07/13
Asian - Narrower
Concept UI M0001811
Scope note A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/10/30/97-28653/revisions-to-the-standards-for-the-classification-of-federal-data-on-race-and-ethnicity). In the United States it is used for classification of federal government data on race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity terms are self-identified social construct and may include terms outdated and offensive in MeSH to assist users who are interested in retrieving comprehensive search results for studies such as in longitudinal studies.
Preferred term Asian
Entry term(s) Americans, Asian
Asian American
Asian Americans
Japanese Americans - Narrower
Concept UI M0001813
Preferred term Japanese Americans
Entry term(s) Americans, Japanese
Japanese American
Chinese Americans - Narrower
Concept UI M0001812
Preferred term Chinese Americans
Entry term(s) Americans, Chinese
Chinese American
Vietnamese Americans - Narrower
Concept UI M000629760
Preferred term Vietnamese Americans
Entry term(s) American, Vietnamese
Americans, Vietnamese
Vietnamese American
Asian Indian Americans - Narrower
Concept UI M000629757
Preferred term Asian Indian Americans
Entry term(s) Asian Indian American
Indian American, Asian
Cambodian Americans - Narrower
Concept UI M000629758
Preferred term Cambodian Americans
Entry term(s) American, Cambodian
Americans, Cambodian
Cambodian American
Hmong Americans - Narrower
Concept UI M000629759
Preferred term Hmong Americans
Entry term(s) Americans, Hmong
Hmong American
Korean Americans - Narrower
Concept UI M0463817
Preferred term Korean Americans
Entry term(s) American, Korean
Americans, Korean
Korean American
Filipino Americans - Narrower
Concept UI M000617097
Preferred term Filipino Americans
Entry term(s) Americans, Filipino
Filipino American



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