Connecting the dots: the power of words and the diversity of epidemiological information.
Almost 30 years ago, my career in public health sciences detoured along an uncommon pathway: I became a wordsmith, finding unambiguous words and phrases to define the concepts, methods and procedures of epidemiology and related sciences. Playing with words made me well known among epidemiologists, a curious outcome because my contributions are otherwise minor. This shows how important words are.
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University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 3M6, Canada. jmlast@uottawa.ca
D057231:Climate Change; D003142:Communication; D004335:Drug and Narcotic Control; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006801:Humans; D019365:Metaphor; D011314:Preventive Health Services; D014956:Writing