PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Last, John
TI  - Connecting the dots: the power of words and the diversity of epidemiological information
AID  - 10.1136/jech.2009.094219
DP  - 2010 Feb 01
TA  - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
PG  - 105--108
VI  - 64
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jech.bmj.com/content/64/2/105.short
4100  - http://jech.bmj.com/content/64/2/105.full
SO  - J Epidemiol Community Health2010 Feb 01; 64
AB  - 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.