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Persons > Health Disparate Minority and Vulnerable Populations > Hispanic or Latino
... > Persons > Population Groups > North American People > Population Groups, US > Ethnicity > Hispanic or Latino
... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Population Groups > North American People > Population Groups, US > Ethnicity > Hispanic or Latino
... > Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Population Groups > North American People > Population Groups, US > Ethnicity > Hispanic or Latino
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Population Groups > North American People > Population Groups, US > Ethnicity > Hispanic or Latino
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Demography > Population Groups > North American People > Population Groups, US > Ethnicity > Hispanic or Latino

Preferred term

Hispanic or Latino  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • American, Hispanic
  • American, US Latin
  • Cuban American
  • Cuban Americans
  • Hispanic American
  • Hispanic Americans
  • Hispanics
  • Latina
  • Latin Americans, US
  • Latin American, US
  • Latinas
  • Latino
  • Latinos
  • Latinx
  • Puerto Rican
  • Puerto Ricans
  • US Latin American
  • US Latin Americans

Scope note

  • A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race (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 Race and ethnicity terms are self-identified social construct and may include terms outdated and offensive in MeSH to assist users who are interested in retrieving comprehensive search results for studies such as in longitudinal studies.

History note

  • 2022(1978)

In other languages

  • espanjalaista alkuperää oleva ihminen

    Finnish

  • espanjalaista alkuperää olevat ihmiset
  • latinalaisamerikkalainen
  • latinalaisamerikkalaiset
  • Kubanamerikaner

    Swedish

  • Latino
  • Puertoricaner
  • Spanskamerikaner

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006630

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