BUILDING AND SANITATION STANDARDS FOR INDIGENOUS HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE

CATEGORICAL MODEL BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION

Abstract

Building and sanitation actions in Indigenous health depend on a dispersed corpus of legal, technical, and guidance documents, whose heterogeneity hinders retrieval and use in public management. This study aims to propose and describe the exploratory application of a categorial model for organizing these documents based on Knowledge Organization. The research adopts a qualitative and quantitative approach and is exploratory, bibliographic, documentary, and applied. The main retrieval source was the LexML Brasil portal, searched on May 20, 2026, using combinations of the terms “works,” “building,” “sanitation,” and “Indigenous”; the corpus was supplemented with official sources selected according to institutional authority and thematic relevance. Categorization combined document reading and content analysis, considering predominant subject, function, use context, documentary evidence, and protected right. The corpus comprised 100 unique documents and 102 primary category records; two additional occurrences resulted from the subdivision of guidance documents, whereas secondary categories remain in the same row and are not included in the frequencies. The result is a matrix of eight thematic-functional categories, applied to the records and illustrated by three documents. The model has the potential to support retrieval, auditing, document traceability, and decision-making, although it still requires validation with users and Indigenous representatives.