Health Promotion and Education Thesaurus 1984

摘要

The Health Promotion and Education Thesaurus is a compilation of standardized words and phrases that are used to characterize and describe health promotion and education literature and program activities. It was developed by the Center for Health Promotion and Education (CHPE) as a source of terminology to describe items published in the monthly issues of Current Awareness in Health Education (CAHE) and entered into the Center's Health Education Subfile of the Combined Health Information Database (CHID). The subfile includes citations and abstracts of current journal articles, monographs, conference proceedings, reports, and nonpublished documents acquired and selected by the Center. It also includes descriptions of programs in health promotion and education which are prepared from information that is provided by the programs themselves. Because the Thesaurus is used for indexing, it provides an authoritative list of terms for use in searching the database. The second edition of the Thesaurus is the result of a continuing, cumulative process of preparing subject indexes for CAHA and indexing items for the Health Education Subfile. Primary sources of terminology for new index terms are the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and the thesauri of the other CHID subfiles. Secondary sources include (1) the 1976 HEIRS (Health Education Information Retrieval System) Thesaurus of Health Education Terminology and the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors; (2) the common usage of practitioners; and (3) the literature itself.