Introduction
The Health Canada Controlled Subject Vocabulary was developed to provide subject access to Health Canada's information resources. The Controlled Vocabulary is a bilingual, structured, indexing and information retrieval tool for both publishers and users of the documents and information published on the Health Canada Web site.The Controlled Vocabulary is a set of preferred terms that can be used to catalogue documents. It standardizes the words associated with a given subject matter, allowing for more precise searches and preventing ambiguous database indexing.
The terms listed in the controlled vocabulary are used in the Dublin Core metadata record for the SUBJECT element, where appropriate and feasible, in order to provide accurate and comprehensive results when searching the Health Canada Web site. The Health Canada Controlled Subject Vocabulary ("gchccv") has been registered with Library and Archives Canada for this purpose.