ENGLISH-LANGUAGE HEALTH INFORMATION TEXTS AS AN OBJECT OF SPECIALISED TRANSLATION

Abstract

The article examines English health information texts as an object of specialised translation. The relevance of the study is determined by the growing importance of international communication in public health, the need for the prompt dissemination of reliable health information, and the expanding professional role of translators. Health information texts produced by public health authorities combine specialised medical terminology with a clear orientation towards the general public, thus requiring terminological accuracy, communicative accessibility, and pragmatic adequacy in translation. The study aims to identify the translation-specific features of English health information texts and to systematise the translation solutions employed in their rendering into Ukrainian. The research is based on authentic English-language health information texts published by official public health institutions. The study applies descriptive, comparative, contextual, and translation analysis methods. The findings indicate that the translation of health information texts relies on the integrated application of established terminological equivalents, specification, pragmatic adaptation, explicitation, syntactic restructuring, compression, and lexical and grammatical substitutions. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the comprehensive analysis of this category of specialised texts and the systematisation of translation solutions according to their communicative functions. The findings may be applied in specialised translation courses and professional translation practice