Words Matter: The Languages of Public Health

• Published in: American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 114; no. 2; pp. 140 - 141
• Main Authors: Williams, Blair E, Fuller, Tyler J, Juturu, Preeti, Rashoka, Falah Nayif, Vasquez, Jesus, Oluwemimo, Damilola
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Public Health Association 01.02.2024
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Audiences; Bisexuality; Community; Community involvement; Community participation; Community power; COVID-19; Data quality; Editor's Choice; Epidemiology; Ethics; Fairness; False information; Health disparities; Indigenous peoples; Language; Languages; Other Race/Ethnicity; Other Statistics/Evaluation/Research; Participatory research; Partisanship; People with disabilities; Public health; Public Health Practice; Social Science; Socioeconomic Factors; Stigma; Transgender persons; United States > US
• DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2023.307540
• ISSN: 0090-0036; 1541-0048

In the current climate- characterized by partisan politics, misinformation, skepticism, and heightened disparities, all intensified by the COVID-19 crisis-these tasks are particularly daunting. [...]the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has precipitated changes in the public health vocabular/ with growing concerns of algorithmic bias and data quality limitations. Black, indigenous, and People of Color; members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning community; and people with disabilities are impacted by persistent systemic inequities and injustices that contribute to feelings of mistrust in health care systems. From AJPH, December 2013, p. 2174 13 YEARS AGO Community-Based Participatory Research to Improve Health Equity [T]he third challenge [for translational research] is language, which includes incompatible discourse between the academy and the community, and the power of naming, which encompasses such commonly used terms as "institutionalization" or "collaborators."