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Descriptor English: Health Classifications
Descriptor Spanish: Clasificaciones en Salud
Descriptor clasificaciones en salud
Scope note: Conjunto de productos de clasificación que se pueden utilizar de manera integrada para comparar la información sobre la salud a nivel internacional o nacional. Las clasificaciones internacionalmente aprobadas facilitan el almacenamiento, recuperación, análisis e interpretación de los datos y su comparación dentro de las poblaciones a través del tiempo y entre poblaciones en el mismo punto en el tiempo, así como la recopilación de datos coherentes internacionalmente. Las poblaciones pueden ser las naciones, los estados y territorios, regiones, grupos minoritarios u otros grupos específicos. Los objetivos de la WHO-FIC son: mejorar la salud mediante el suministro de información fiable para apoyar la toma de decisiones en todos los niveles, proporcionar un marco conceptual de campos de información para los cuales las clasificaciones son, o pueden ser, necesarias para fines relacionados con la salud y su gestión, proporcionar un conjunto de clasificaciones aprobadas con fines particulares definidos dentro del marco, promover la selección adecuada de las clasificaciones en una amplia gama de contextos en el campo de la salud en todo el mundo, establecer un lenguaje común para mejorar la comunicación, permitir comparaciones de datos dentro y entre los estados miembros, disciplinas, servicios y tiempo, y para estimular la investigación sobre la salud y el sistema sanitario. (Traducción libre: Madden et al. World Health Organization Family of International Classifications: definition, scope and purpose. Disponible online en http://www.who.int/classifications/en/FamilyDocument2007.pdf)
Descriptor Portuguese: Classificações em Saúde
Descriptor French: Classifications de Santé
Entry term(s): Classifications of Health
Classifications on Health
International Classifications of Health
International Classifications on Health
International Health Classifications
WHO Family of International Classifications
Tree number(s): SP5.467.365.431
Scope note: A suite of classification products that may be used in an integrated fashion to compare health information internationally as well as nationally. Internationally endorsed classifications facilitate the storage, retrieval, analysis, and interpretation of data and their comparison within populations over time and between populations at the same point in time as well as the compilation of internationally consistent data. Populations may be Nations, States and Territories, regions, minority groups or other specified groups. The purposes of the WHO-FIC are to: improve health through provision of sound health information to support decision making at all levels; provide a conceptual framework of information domains for which classifications are, or are likely to be, required for purposes related to health and health management; provide a suite of endorsed classifications for particular purposes defined within the framework; promote the appropriate selection of classifications in a wide range of settings in the health field across the world; establish a common language to improve communication; permit comparisons of data within and between member states, health care disciplines, services and time; and to stimulate research on health and the health system. (From: Madden et. al. World Health Organization Family of International Classifications: definition, scope and purpose. Available online at http://www.who.int/classifications/en/FamilyDocument2007.pdf)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
DeCS ID: 28588
Unique ID: DDCS028588
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Health Classifications - Preferred
Concept UI FD00060305
Scope note A suite of classification products that may be used in an integrated fashion to compare health information internationally as well as nationally. Internationally endorsed classifications facilitate the storage, retrieval, analysis, and interpretation of data and their comparison within populations over time and between populations at the same point in time as well as the compilation of internationally consistent data. Populations may be Nations, States and Territories, regions, minority groups or other specified groups. The purposes of the WHO-FIC are to: improve health through provision of sound health information to support decision making at all levels; provide a conceptual framework of information domains for which classifications are, or are likely to be, required for purposes related to health and health management; provide a suite of endorsed classifications for particular purposes defined within the framework; promote the appropriate selection of classifications in a wide range of settings in the health field across the world; establish a common language to improve communication; permit comparisons of data within and between member states, health care disciplines, services and time; and to stimulate research on health and the health system. (From: Madden et. al. World Health Organization Family of International Classifications: definition, scope and purpose. Available online at http://www.who.int/classifications/en/FamilyDocument2007.pdf)
Preferred term Health Classifications
Entry term(s) Classifications of Health
Classifications on Health
International Classifications of Health
International Classifications on Health
International Health Classifications
WHO Family of International Classifications



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