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Essay
Connecting the dots: the power of words and the diversity of epidemiological information
Abstract
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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Competing interests None.
Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.