Consumer Health Vocabulary: A Proposal for a Brazilian Portuguese Language.
Studies show a gap between the expressions commonly used by health consumers and health professionals. To bridge this gap, consumer health vocabularies are presented as a solution. The aim of this paper is to describe an on-going project to create a consumer health vocabulary (CHV) in the Brazilian Portuguese language. This project will be developed in three phases: terms extraction and connection to compose a CHV graph structure, human validation, and computacional application development. We expect to make a CHV beta version (including approximately 5,000 valid consumer terms stored in a database graph) available. This project can contribute to the improvement of CHVs.
Graduate Program in Management and Health Informatics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil.
Josceli Maria
JM
Tenório
Health Informatics Department, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil.
Ivan
I
Torres Pisa
D001938:Brazil; D054626:Consumer Health Information / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D011174:Portugal; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014175:Translating; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled