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This article is part of a series on Beyond English: Accessing the global epidemiological literature, edited by Mr. Isaac Fung, Imperial College London.

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Does language matter? A case study of epidemiological and public health journals, databases and professional education in French, German and Italian

Iacopo Baussano1,2* email, Patrick Brzoska3* email, Ugo Fedeli4* email, Claudia Larouche5* email, Oliver Razum3* email and Isaac C-H Fung1 email

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, St. Mary's Campus, Imperial College London, UK

CPO-Piemonte, Novara, Italy

Department of Epidemiology & International Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld, Germany

SER-Epidemiological Department, Veneto Region, Castelfranco (TV), Italy

Department of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008, 5:16doi:10.1186/1742-7622-5-16

Published: 30 September 2008

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Abstract in Chinese – simplified characters.

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Abstract in Chinese – traditional characters.

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Abstract in French.

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Abstract in German.

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Abstract in Italian.

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Abstract in Spanish.

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