Proposta de um tesauro da doença anemia falciforme

Abstract

Research the construction of a thesaurus in an area of health knowledge. It delimits the subdomain in sickle cell disease, which is one of the diseases detected by the heel prick test. Its main objective is to propose the construction of a thesaurus of sickle cell disease. The methodology used was based on the “Integrated Methodological Model for the Construction of Thesaurus” by Cervantes (2009). Three articles on the chosen theme were selected, from which 150 probable terms were analyzed and identified for the representation of the disease. It concludes on the importance of librarianship and the librarian in the systematization and organization of information, regardless of the area of knowledge and that following the guidelines proposed by Gomes (1984) and Cervantes (2009) proves to be an important tool for the construction of thesauri. It ends with the completed thesaurus proposal, emphasizing that we can see, from the point of view of the use of information and communication technologies, that professionals who use these tools need to be always up to date, following new scenarios and transformations, with the objective of socializing and democratizing the information produced by humanity, facilitating its recovery