The concepts that compose the DeCS vocabulary are organized in a hierarchical structure permitting searches in broader or more specific terms or all the terms that belong to a single hierarchy.
Its main purpose is to serve as a unique language for indexing and recovery of information among the components of the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Information System,[2] coordinated by BIREME and that encompasses 37 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, permitting a uniform dialog between nearly 600 libraries.
DeCS participates in the unified terminology development project, UMLS – Unified Medical Language System of the NLM, with the responsibility of contributing with the terms in Portuguese[3] and Spanish.[4]
BIREME – Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information
VHL Regional Portal – Virtual Health Library
NLM – U. S. National Library of Medicine
UMLS – Unified Medical Language System
LILACS Methodology
January 01, 1970
health, sciences, descriptors, decs, structured, trilingual, thesaurus, created, bireme, latin, american, caribbean, center, health, sciences, information, 1986, indexing, scientific, journal, articles, books, proceedings, congresses, technical, reports, other. DeCS Health Sciences Descriptors is a structured and trilingual thesaurus created by BIREME Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information in 1986 for indexing scientific journal articles books proceedings of congresses technical reports and other types of materials as well as for searching and recovering scientific information in LILACS MEDLINE and other databases In the VHL Virtual Health Library DeCS is the tool that permits the navigation between records and sources of information through controlled concepts and organized in Portuguese Spanish and English It was developed from MeSH Medical Subject Headings from the NLM U S National Library of Medicine in order to permit the use of common terminology for searching in three languages providing a consistent and unique environment for information retrieval regardless of the language In addition to the original MeSH terms 1 four specific areas were developed Public Health 1986 Homeopathy 1991 Health Surveillance 2005 and Science and Health 2005 The concepts that compose the DeCS vocabulary are organized in a hierarchical structure permitting searches in broader or more specific terms or all the terms that belong to a single hierarchy Its main purpose is to serve as a unique language for indexing and recovery of information among the components of the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Information System 2 coordinated by BIREME and that encompasses 37 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean permitting a uniform dialog between nearly 600 libraries DeCS participates in the unified terminology development project UMLS Unified Medical Language System of the NLM with the responsibility of contributing with the terms in Portuguese 3 and Spanish 4 References edit Medical Subject Headings Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Information System UMLS MeSH Portuguese UMLS MeSH Spanish External links editDeCS Health Sciences Descriptors DeCS on BIREME s Wiki BIREME Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information VHL Regional Portal Virtual Health Library NLM U S National Library of Medicine UMLS Unified Medical Language System LILACS Methodology Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Health Sciences Descriptors amp oldid 1181337917, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
