Although the decentralized and autonomous implementation of health information systems has made it possible to extend the reach of surveillance systems to a variety of contextually disparate domains, public health use of data from these systems is not primarily anticipated []. The Semantic Web has been proposed to address both representational and semantic heterogeneity in distributed and collaborative environments []. We introduce a semantic approach for the integration of health data using the Resource Definition Framework (RDF) and the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) [] developed by the Semantic Web community.
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