"South Africa" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A republic in southern Africa, the southernmost part of Africa. It has three capitals: Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), and Bloemfontein (judicial). Officially the Republic of South Africa since 1960, it was called the Union of South Africa 1910-1960.
| Descriptor ID |
D013019
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.058.290.175.735
|
| Concept/Terms |
South Africa- South Africa
- Union of South Africa
- Republic of South Africa
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "South Africa".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "South Africa".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "South Africa" by people in this website by year, and whether "South Africa" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2016 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2017 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2018 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "South Africa" by people in Profiles.
-
A cross-national validation of the Internet Severity and Activities Addiction Questionnaire (ISAAQ). Compr Psychiatry. 2023 04; 122:152378.
-
Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa. Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2023 07; 306(7):1762-1803.
-
The COVID-19 pandemic and problematic usage of the internet: Findings from a diverse adult sample in South Africa. J Psychiatr Res. 2022 09; 153:229-235.
-
Evidence from South Africa for a protracted end-Permian extinction on land. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 04 27; 118(17).
-
Measurement of the problematic usage of the Internet unidimensional quasitrait continuum with item response theory. Psychol Assess. 2021 Jul; 33(7):652-671.
-
EVITA 2.0, an updated framework for understanding evidence-based mental health policy agenda-setting: tested and informed by key informant interviews in a multilevel comparative case study. Health Res Policy Syst. 2021 Mar 10; 19(1):35.
-
A novel brief treatment for methamphetamine use disorders in South Africa: a randomised feasibility trial. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2021 01 07; 16(1):3.
-
Cascade Screening for Familial Hypercholesterolemia in South Africa: The Wits FIND-FH Program. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2020 11; 40(11):2747-2755.
-
Problematic use of the Internet is a unidimensional quasi-trait with impulsive and compulsive subtypes. BMC Psychiatry. 2019 11 08; 19(1):348.
-
Decreased microbial co-occurrence network stability and SCFA receptor level correlates with obesity in African-origin women. Sci Rep. 2018 11 20; 8(1):17135.