A comparison of human and machine translation of health promotion materials for public health practice: Time, costs, and quality

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 523-529

  Turner, Anne M ^a   Bergman, Margo ^b   Brownstein, Megumu ^b   Cole, Kate ^a   Kirchhoff, Katrin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

health status disparities; natural language processing; public health informatics; public health practice; workflow

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY CONTROL; TIME FACTOR; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE);

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MACHINE LEARNING; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; QUALITY CONTROL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84905090209     PISSN: 10784659     EISSN: 15505022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0b013e3182a95c87     Document Type: Article

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