Launch of the new DeCS portal

How:

Virtual link for English event

Overview

DeCS, the controlled and multilingual health vocabulary, turns 34 and to celebrate its anniversary, it launches a new portal with its terminology organized hierarchically and by concepts, and focused on the SDG3 goal (Health and Well-being) of the 2030 Agenda.

An Acronym in Portuguese for Health Sciences Descriptors, DeCS is contextualized to the LA&C region with exclusive categories added by BIREME/PAHO/WHO.

DeCS is an extended translation of the MeSH - Medical Subject Headings - of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

It organizes almost 600,000 terms, 99,800 conceptual definitions and 40,700 notes for indexers, among other standardized data.

DeCS is kept updated by a network made up of four health institutions coordinated by BIREME/PAHO/WHO.

Agenda

From 11:30 am to 12:30 am (Brasília time)

• Welcome remarks. Dr. Diego Gonzales, Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center for Health Sciences Information, BIREME/PAHO/WHO
• Official launch of the new DeCS platform. Dr. Jarbas Barbosa. Assistant Director of PAHO/WHO
• The importance of DeCS in Latin America and the Caribbean. Renato Murasaki, Methodologies and Information Technology Manager, BIREME/PAHO/WHO
• Presentation of the new DeCS portal. Dr. Ana Cristina Espindola Campos, Information Analyst, BIREME/PAHO/WHO
• Suggestions and questions
• Closure. Dr. Sebastián García, Director Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health Department, PAHO/WHO.

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