Source:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0015031
MSH: A group of people with a common cultural heritage that sets them apart from others in a variety of social relationships.,CSP: a group of people with a common cultural heritage that sets them apart from others in a variety of social relationships.,HL7V3.0: <p>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