FIRST CALL
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FIRST REGIONAL CONGRESS ON HEALTH SCIENCES
INFORMATION
AND
THIRD MEETING OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND
HEALTH
CARIBBEAN SCIENCES INFORMATION NETWORK
BIREME.
PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION,
REGIONAL OFICE OF THE
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
October 14-16, 1992
Sao Paulo, S.P. BRAZIL
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The Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences
Information (BIREME), Pan American Health Organization, Regional
Office of the World Health Organization is promoting the FIRST
REGIONAL CONGRESS ON HEALTH SCIENCES INFORMATION
to be held from 14-16 October 1992 and the Third Meeting of the Latin
American and Caribbean Network, to be held on October 17 in Sao
Paulo, Brazil at the Escola Paulista de Medicine and BIREME.
THEME.
Health Sciences Information in Latin America and the Caribbean:
current situation, new trends and the application of modern information
technologies.
PARTICIPANTS.
** BIREME Network users and Biomedical and Health Sciences
Professionals
** Specialists interested in new information technologies.
** Members of the Latin American and Caribbean Network on
Health Sciences Information
CONFERENCES
Specially invited guest will address the Congress on the following topics:
* New technologies and its application on information
access and document delivery.
* Database search strategies.
* Terminology and thesaurus building.
* Online document image delivery
* Informatics in Health Sciences.
COURSES.
The program will include six hour courses given by brazilians and
foreign specialists on topics such as:
* Evaluation on information systems.
* Costs and price policies in scientific and technological
information systems.
* Biomedical and Health Sciences Databases
* Computer-assisted indexing and bibliographic description
* Health Sciences multilingual thesaurus development.
ROUND TABLE
Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Information
Network: present situation its expansion and the challenge of the future.
NETWORK MEETING.
National Centers Coordinators and special guests will attend.
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More information can be obtained at BIREME.
Rua Botucatu 862
CEP 04023 Sao Paulo, SP
BRASIL
FAX: (55-11) 571-191
E-MAIL: BIREME at BRFAPESP.BITNET
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OCTOBER 14 TO 16, 1992
DO NOT MISS IT
