Trends in…Controlled Vocabulary and Health Equity

Abstract

Medical librarians collaborate with physicians and other healthcare professionals to improve the quality and accessibility of medical information, which includes assembling the best evidence to advance health equality through teaching and research. This column brings together brief cases highlighting the experiences and perspectives of medical librarians, educators, and healthcare professionals using their organizational, pedagogical, and information-analysis skills to advance health equality indexing.

Keywords: Controlled vocabulary; curriculum mapping; health equity; health inequities; health status disparities; information literacy instruction; medical subject headings; ontologies.