OBJECTIVES Epidemiology is often described as 'the science of public health'. Here we aim to assess the extent that epidemiological methods, as covered in contemporary standard textbooks, provide tools that can assess the relative magnitude of public health problems and can be used to help rank and assess public health priorities. STUDY DESIGN Narrative literature review. METHODS Thirty tex...

Certain texts, such as clinical reports and clinical trial records, are written by professionals for professionals while being increasingly accessed by lay people. To improve the comprehensibility of such documents to the lay audience, we conducted a pilot study to analyze terms used primarily by health professionals, and explore ways to make them more comprehensible to lay people.

today, discussions on health have considered the spiritual – mental health on a par with physical health. a close relationship can be seen between two points, mental health and ethical, training issues, so that individuals who do not have spiritual virtues and religious training are not healthy individuals. due to the considerable importance of moral and mental health about children, this study...

This paper describes the LMU Munich English→German machine translation systems. We participated with neural translation engines in the WMT17 shared task on machine translation of news, as well as in the biomedical translation task. LMU Munich’s systems deliver competitive machine translation quality on both news articles and health information texts.

The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare database of rare diseases contains detailed documents describing over 250 rare diseases, and new texts are constantly being produced. There are currently more than 500,000 Swedish and international visitors every year, and the figure is constantly rising. People with rare diseases and their families, parent and patient organisations, professional...