HL7 Terminology (THO)
3.1.0 - Publication
This page is part of the HL7 Terminology (v3.1.0: Release) based on FHIR R4. The current version which supercedes this version is 5.2.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions
Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-Ethnicity | Version: 2.1.0 | |||
Active as of 2019-03-20 | Responsible: Health Level 7 | Computable Name: Ethnicity | ||
Other Identifiers: : urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.5.50 |
In the United States, federal standards for classifying data on ethnicity determine the categories used by federal agencies and exert a strong influence on categorization by state and local agencies and private sector organizations. The federal standards do not conceptually define ethnicity, and they recognize the absence of an anthropological or scientific basis for ethnicity classification. Instead, the federal standards acknowledge that ethnicity is a social-political construct in which an individual’s own identification with a particular ethnicity is preferred to observer identification. The standards specify two minimum ethnicity categories: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino. The standards define a Hispanic or Latino as a person of “Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central America, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.” The standards stipulate that ethnicity data need not be limited to the two minimum categories, but any expansion must be collapsible to those categories. In addition, the standards stipulate that an individual can be Hispanic or Latino or can be Not Hispanic or Latino, but cannot be both.
This Code system is referenced in the content logical definition of the following value sets:
Properties
Code | URL | Type | Description |
Specializes | Coding | The child code is a more narrow version of the concept represented by the parent code. I.e. Every child concept is also a valid parent concept. Used to allow determination of subsumption. Must be transitive, irreflexive, antisymmetric. | |
Generalizes | Coding | Inverse of Specializes. Only included as a derived relationship. | |
internalId | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/utg-concept-properties#v3-internal-id | code | The internal identifier for the concept in the HL7 Access database repository. |
status | http://hl7.org/fhir/concept-properties#status | code | Designation of a concept's state. Normally is not populated unless the state is retired. |
This code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-Ethnicity defines the following codes:
History
Date | Action | Author | Custodian | Comment |
2022-02-17 12:00:32+1100 | revise | Grahame Grieve | Vocabulary WG | Populate Missing caseSensitive property; UP-286 |
2020-05-06 | revise | Ted Klein | Vocabulary WG | Migrated to the UTG maintenance environment and publishing tooling. |