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Environmental Health Thesaurus

Use this thesaurus to help you write about environmental health using plain language. For each environmental health term, you’ll see a tip, recommended alternative, and example sentence. Please contact us at wes@cdc.gov if you have suggestions for new terms.

You can also use CDC’s “Everyday Words” tool to reduce jargon and replace difficult terms in your materials.

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