Plain language thesaurus for health communications

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Plain language thesaurus for health communications

Draft version 3, October 2007
By National Center for Health Marketing (U.S.)

English

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Details:

Corporate Authors:

National Center for Health Marketing (U.S.)
Description:

"This Plain Language Thesaurus has been put together by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Marketing. Our aim is to help make health information clear and easy to understand. This thesaurus offers plain language equivalents to medical terms, phrases, and references that we often use. The technical terms found in health information can be confusing."
Content Notes:

"07-151(NE)/092607"
Subjects:

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Health Communication Patient Education As Topic Terminology As Topic Writing
Document Type:

Pamphlet (or booklet)
Genre:

Bibliography
Pages in Document:

microfiche; electronic resource; remote; Acrobat .pdf file: 225 KB, 44 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection(s):

Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
Main Document Checksum:

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urn:sha256:dcf99912c435e860d4d59c9c660ede1ee54f8250ee0c1af556e933e6bfcfd583
Download URL:

https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/11500/cdc_11500_DS1.pdf
File Type:

[PDF-224.40 KB]