CORDEL TITLES
AN ANALYSIS OF THE REPRESENTATION OF HEALTH INFORMATION
Keywords:
health information, cordel literature, social determinants of health, thematic representation of information, information retrievalAbstract
The aim of this study is to analyze health information in the titles of cordel booklets. This is a bibliographic and documentary study with a descriptive approach and a qualitative methodology, grounded in the principles of information representation and thematic analysis. The corpus, with no temporal, geographical, or authorial delimitation, consists of 166 titles from the cordel literature collection of the Central Library of the State University of Londrina. The results identify diseases, health problems, social and environmental determinants, and interfaces between determinants and health problems. Social and environmental determinants of health predominate in the corpus, jointly accounting for 80.7% of the analyzed records, with emphasis on living conditions, the environment, and social inequalities related to the health-disease process. It is concluded that cordel literature titles can provide elements for thematic representation and contribute to the identification and retrieval of health information in cordel literature collections.