HPMULTI

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“The thesaurus concerns the key issues of health education, health promotion and patient education at European level. The selected descriptors of health issues are mostly related to health behaviour and issues, which are often subjects of patient education, consumer information and educational materials. The emphasis has been placed on the practice of health promotion.”

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

The European multilingual thesaurus on health promotion

Vocabulary type: 
Thesaurus
Author or Editor: 
“a product of international co-operation and financed by the European Commision.” Project coordinators: • Laura Dorst, Netherlands Institute for Health Promotion and Disease prevention (NIGZ), Woerden, Project Co-ordinator projectmanagement; • Giancarlo Pocetta, Experimental Center for Health Education (CSESi), Perugia, Project Co-ordinator with respect to the content; • Kerstin Karlström, Karolinska Institute Library, Stockholm, Project Co-ordinator technical aspects. Editors: Guillemette Chevaillier (French language), Laura Dorst (Dutch language), Mercedes Febrel (Spanish language), Margaret Forrest (English language), Osvaldo Fressoia (Italian language), Kerstin Karlström (Swedish language), Pania Karnaki (Greek language), Birgit Lange (Danish language), Outi Meriläinen (Finnish language), Pedro Ribeiro da Silva (Portuguese language), Turid Tharaldsen (Norwegian language), Heidrun Zimmermann (German language).
Vocabulary URL: 

http://www.hpmulti.net/

Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
No
Scope and Usage
Languages: 

“The thesaurus is available in twelve languages: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.”

Major subjects covered: 

Health promotion and health education; Health sciences; Social system; Education and training; Communication and information; Health problems and diseases; Health topics and fields; Social and health services; Ethics and health rights

Purpose: 

“The aim of the thesaurus is to improve the communication and the collaboration in the field of health promotion and health education at the European level through stimulation of a common, uniform way of retrieval of terms and concepts.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
Hierarchy
Alphabetical list
Full term records
Relationship types: 
Equivalence (Primary/variant terms or Preferred/non-preferred)
Equivalence (Inter-language; may be between separate lists)
Hierarchical (Broader/narrower terms)
Associative (Related terms)
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Collaborative effort
Provider URL: 

http://www.hpmulti.net/

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