The inclusion of self-reported health into cross-country population surveys has contributed to substantial progress in the social science, public and epidemiology fields. Measuring is a cost-effective method gain information on individual-health status. measurement however not without flaws. In this glossary we provide basic definition health. Cross-country that contain data are discussed. We h...

BACKGROUND The way people use health technology assessment (HTA) terms varies considerably across Europe. Such variation can lead to misunderstandings when reading HTA reports from different contexts. This work is one of the outputs of the EUnetHTA Project and was undertaken between 2006 and 2008. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to develop a glossary of HTA adaptation terms to help reduc...

Conceptual models are mostly used for human to human communication. Besides several other aspects, that is, the chosen modelling notation or the model layout, the labelling has a strong influence on the understandability and, therefore, quality of a process model. Consequently, labels should be reused and aligned across different process models, whereas similar labels such as homonyms should be...

This French / English glossary of medical and molecular genetics is intended for students in human and biological sciences as well as medical and para-medical personnel. It is mainly a tool for teaching and research. This glossary contains terminology frequently used in clinics and the laboratory. Within all areas of genetics the utilisation of terms in the glossary may also evolve with time or...

In this paper we describe the practical aspects of extracting and using a glossary for a selected technical domain. We first describe the existing glossary extraction process, as applied to general corpora, and examine its shortcomings in the technical support domain. Then we propose a number of enhancements to it, including focusing the glossary on a selected domain context, providing support ...