Hi Madeline!

My name is Natalie Parry. I'm the Partnership and Health Promotion
Consultant for the Canadian Cancer Society, the cancer affiliate for the
CHN. I saw your posting on the Click4HP listserv about the thesaurus you are
developing. As an FYI, I passed your message along to our Project Manager,
Laura Heller, who's background is in Library Science. She wanted me to pass
some information along to you about some work that has already been done in
the area of thesaurus development for women.

She suggested that you contact Homa Asayesh who has developed an amazing,
catalogued collection of consumer health information for women. Her Toronto
number is (416) 351-3717. Also the Women's Resource Centre at OISE
developed, in the late 1980's, a bilingual, Canadian thesaurus of terms on
women. Finally, the Faculty of Information Science, University of Toronto
has the most extensive collection of thesauri anywhere (world renowned) and
their catalogue is searchable through the UofT Library website.

I hope this information is helpful.

Natalie



Natalie Parry
Partnership and Health Promotion Consultant
Canadian Cancer Society
Cancer Affiliate, Canadian Health Network
36 Toronto Street, Suite 850
Toronto, ON  M5C 2C5
phone: 416.363.9662/1.877.735.2484
fax: 416.360.3838
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-----Original Message-----
From: Madeline Boscoe [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 5:41 PM
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Subject: Re: Special Social Health Library Development


Hi there;
the Canadian Women's Health Network is in the middle of a women's health
thesaurus - which will be bilingual.
Many of the terms you mention are part of our work. We are using STEMMA as
our thesaurus program.
It will be up shortly on our web site. As well, the Canadian Health Network
, of which we are the Women's Health Affiliate is developing a thesaurus.
we can provide you with some further contact information. and Last but not
the WHO has developed a glossary of health promotion terms that might be of
use.
In the meantime I am copying this message to IVictoria Javier our
clearinghouse coordinator so you can follow up as needed,
all the best, Madeline


At 02:31 PM 6/23/00 +1000, you wrote:
>We are interested in establishing a specialist research library for our
area
>of work.  The main reason for doing this is that most of what we use are
>specific journal articles (not the whole journal which is all that is
>usually catalogued)and articles from the internet.  Often what strikes us
is
>only an aspect of an article.
>
>To capture this better we are developing a thesaurus for our needs.  We
have
>some 3,000 articles so you see it is not a small job.  A thesaurus is a
>controlled vocabulary for descriptive cataloguing thus making searching
very
>much more effective.  To give an idea of our research and analysis areas
>here are some subject areas.  We work in the public health sector.
>
>health promotion
>community development
>social capital
>capacity building
>resilience
>social determinants
>SES factors
>governance
>health gain
>risk conditions
>risk factors
>training in competencies
>economic capacity
>decision making
>consultation
>
>I would like to know of any special library that may have this focus, or
>anyone developing a thesaurus relevant to this area.
>
>
>Regards
>
>Alan
>
>Alan Sutherland
>Health Promotion Policy Officer
>Strategic Analysis and Research
>Strategic and Corporate Support Division
>Department of Health and Human Services
>PO Box 125B, Hobart
>TASMANIA
>AUSTRALIA       7000
>
>Phone: (03) 6233 3147
>FAX:     (03) 6233 2899
>E-mail:  [log in to unmask]
>
>Australian International:
>011 + 61 + 3 + (eight digit call number)