New Health Sciences Descriptors to classify and retrieve information on equity

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ID14967221
AuthorsAna Cristina Espíndola Campos (Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, Pan American Health Organization. São Paulo, Brazil., corresponding author), Arthur Treuherz (0000-0002-1294-2156, Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, Pan American Health Organization. São Paulo, Brazil.), Renato Toshiyuki Murasaki (0000-0001-8679-7150, Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, Pan American Health Organization. São Paulo, Brazil.), Diego González (0000-0003-0907-7197, Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, Pan American Health Organization. São Paulo, Brazil.), Óscar J Mújica (0000-0002-2893-4206, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., United States of America.)
Year2021
Volume45
Pages1
Publication date2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1020-4989 • E-ISSN: 1680-5348
PublisherPan American Health Organization (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.26633/rpsp.2021.78
PMID34220990
OpenAlexW3047663135
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited4

The Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS) vocabulary establishes a unique and common language that allows the organization and facilitates the search and retrieval of technical and scientific literature on health available in the information sources of the Virtual Health Library. The DeCS, created by the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME), a specialized center of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), is the translation and extension of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary, maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine. BIREME, in coordination with experts from Latin America and the Caribbean, has included in the DeCS the topics of equity, gender, ethnicity and human rights—cross-cutting themes in the programmatic framework of PAHO/WHO technical cooperation—to ensure better retrieval and use of scientific information and evidence related to these topics. The objective of this article is to describe the methodology used during the terminology review of the DeCS and to report the results obtained and the impacts of the terminology expansion in the field of equity, which included the inclusion of 35 new descriptors

Controlled vocabulary · Equity (law · Health care · Health equity · Latin Americans · Library science · Linguistics · Political science · Scientific terminology · Terminology · Vocabulary · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Global Maternal and Child Health · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Public Health Policies and Education

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