ICD

Disease classification

“International classification of diseases”. There was a book about the impact of classification systems and the fact that such systems are not free of social and political frames.

Standard vocabularies for health records

Currently ICD-10 is in use.

Relationships with other systems

MeSH

ICD-10 codes diseases for clinical/epidemiological use, while MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexes topics (including diseases) for literature.

There exists Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus that provides a crosswalk.

Some Global health studies used the mapping to study the gap between research and needs. See Evans2014attention and Yegros-Yegros2020exploring.