POPLINE thesaurus

• Corporate Author: Johns Hopkins University
• Format: Book
• Published: Baltimore, Mayland The Program 1981
• Subjects: Subject headings > Birth control; Subject headings > Population; Population > Abstracting and indexing; Birth control > Abstracting and indexing
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 The POPLINE Thesaurus was created out of an effort to merge the Population/Fertility Control Thesaurus of the Population Information Program of Johns Hopkins University and the Fertility Modification Thesaurus of the Center for Population and Family Health of Columbia University; these organizations also created and maintain the POPLINE data base, available through the U.S. Library of Congress. Demographic terms used for indexing in the Population Index published by Princeton University's Office of Population are also included in the Thesaurus. A working group of representatives from the above 3 groups was established in 1981 charged with decision making about additions, changes, and deletions to the Thesaurus. A major task of the group's meeting in September 1981 was development of hierarchies for the Thesaurus. 18 primary subject areas in population and family planning were identified based on those in the Population Multilingual Thesaurus (PMT), and allocated for further development. Where feasible, demographic terms and hierarchical arrangements will correspond to those in the PMT, while biomedical terms and hierarchies will correspond to MeSH; social science terms and hierarchies will correspond to both PMT and MeSH and to the Carolina Population Center's Population/Family Planning Thesaurus. A geographic hierarchy is to be developed based on key statistical publications. The importance of further developing working links with POPIN is noted.