Environment notions in the controlled vocabulary of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
a geographic perspective
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https://doi.org/10.5216/bgg.v43i01.73523Abstract
Established over three decades ago, the controlled vocabulary of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) has great potential to be a documental source to enlighten how Health Sciences incorporate overtime the relevant themes for their knowledge and practices. This paper aims to categorize and discuss some notions on the term environment that are present in this controlled vocabulary, using as its thread the environmental crisis discussed in the Geography area. This is a qualitative, exploratory, documental research. Data was gathered from the MeSH website, in the sections of free search and previous editions from 1999 to 2020. As a result, we created four categories on environment notions: ecological, scalar, work and architectonic. The results associated to the discussions on the environmental crisis in Geography indicated that there are conceptual gaps in the controlled vocabulary of MeSH regarding health and environment. We point out the need to extrapolate the ecological equilibrium/environmental imbalance and environmental management/environment design approaches, also taking into consideration the territorial approach.
Keywords: Environment; Geography; Controlled Vocabulary; Health Sciences.
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