Open invitation to listserv members and colleagues, 

The Division of Health Communication and Marketing, National Center for
Health Marketing at CDC has developed a draft plain language thesaurus
as a tool to provide plain language alternatives to medical and public
health terms. There currently is a draft version that has circulated and
been posted on some web sites but it is not an official CDC document
yet. 

We value your input for this project and invite you to participate in
its development through a web-based wiki that will allow you to suggest
additional terms, plain language synonyms, and topics to be added in
future editions.

Please go to http://wiki.saiceemg.com/index.php/Main_Page to review the
thesaurus and join our online community of collaborators.  To edit and
contribute to the wiki, you will need to create an account and log in.
The wiki will be available through August 22, 2008. The wiki is hosted
by CDC's contractor. 

Once we evaluate the utility of this tool, we will explore ways to make
it broadly available to the field. 

Thank you for your participation. 


Cynthia Baur, Ph.D. 
Director, Division of Health Communication and Marketing
National Center for Health Marketing
CDC




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