HL7 Terminology (THO)
6.0.2 - Continuous Process Integration (ci build)
HL7 Terminology (THO), published by HL7 International - Vocabulary Work Group. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 6.0.2 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/UTG/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-Ethnicity | Version: 4.0.0 | |||
Active as of 2022-01-30 | Responsible: Health Level Seven International | Computable Name: Ethnicity | ||
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.5.50 | ||||
Copyright/Legal: This material derives from the HL7 Terminology THO. THO is copyright ©1989+ Health Level Seven International and is made available under the CC0 designation. For more licensing information see: https://terminology.hl7.org/license.html |
Deprecation Information: Deprecated due to UP-265. This code system in NOT the acknowledged source of truth for Ethnicity concepts and codes. It should no longer be used. https://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem-CDCREC.html should be used in its place. 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:
Generated Narrative: CodeSystem v3-Ethnicity
Language: en
Properties
This code system defines the following properties for its concepts
Name | Code | URI | Type | Description |
Specializes | 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 | Generalizes | Coding | Inverse of Specializes. Only included as a derived relationship. | |
internalId | 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 | status | http://hl7.org/fhir/concept-properties#status | code | Designation of a concept's state. Normally is not populated unless the state is retired. |
Concepts
This case-sensitive code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-Ethnicity
defines the following codes in a Is-A hierarchy:
History
Date | Action | Author | Custodian | Comment |
2023-11-14 | revise | Marc Duteau | TSMG | Add standard copyright and contact to internal content; up-476 |
2022-10-20 | deprecate | Marc Duteau | SD | Deprecate the Ethnicity Code System in THO; up-265 |
2022-10-18 | revise | Marc Duteau | TSMG | Fixing missing metadata; up-349 |
2022-02-17 00:00:32+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. |