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The Association of American Medical Colleges's guidelines for using inclusive language, narratives, and concepts.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's preferred terms for select population groups and communities in healthcare.

CDC’s Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication emphasizes the importance of addressing all people inclusively and respectfully. These principles are intended to help public health professionals, particularly health communicators, within and outside of CDC ensure their communication products and strategies adapt to the specific cultural, linguistic, environmental, and historical situation of each population or audience of focus.

National Institute's of Health's guidelines for using inclusive language.

Links to references, other resources, and style guides to frame health equity and avoid stigmatizing language.

Berkeley Haas's guide and framework to understanding inclusive language.

American Chemical Society's Inclusivity Style Guide

Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging's guidelines for using age-inclusive language.

11th Edition of the AMA Manual Of Style's definition of ageism

American Psychological Association's terms for Different Age Groups.

Guidelines for Age-Inclusive Communication

Frameworks' report outlines an evidence-based reframing strategy and details the research methods and findings behind reframing aging and ageism.

The Gerontological Society of America's guidelines for submitting journal articles on ageism/aging.

Access Living organization's article on how to recognize social prejudice and discrimination against persons with disabilities and how to become an ally.

United Nations at Geneva guidelines to mainstream disability inclusion at the United Nations. Created in 2019, updated 2021.

Forbes' article on what to do and not do when describing and talking to persons with disabilities.

Spread the Word Inclusion's article on why the R-word is so hurtful when used in jokes or as part of everyday speech.

Guidelines by the National Network of Information, Guidance, and Training on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for writing about people with disabilities.

A list written by the Special Olympics organization of tips for supporting persons with intellectual disabilities and fighting negative stereotypes.

A 2019 article discussing why disability inclusive language matters from international company, Aim Big Employment.

American Psychological Association's guidelines on using inclusive language to raise awareness, guide learning, and support the use of culturally sensitive terms and phrases that center the voices and perspectives of those who are often marginalized or stereotyped.

This article offers a brief background related to inclusive language and describes a comparative textual analysis of several guiding documents (n = 6) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the American Psychological Association (APA).

Office of Human Rights (OHR) guide to inclusive language on race and ethnicity including helpful definitions.

The Nova Collective's glossary of terms to use on race and ethnicity.

JAMA article that provides guidance and examples of inclusive language when describing patients, study participants, and others in medical and scientific content.

National Cancer Institute's article on inclusive language disparities focusing on race and ethnicity.

Women's Health Research Institute's article on gender-inclusive language and initiatives.

While this guide can help build a common vocabulary, providers should always allow patients to describe themselves and should follow the patient’s terminology. Some of the following terms have definitions that overlap but are presented here because they may be preferred by various individuals. By being familiar with all of the possible options, providers can create the safest, most respectful environment for their patients.

National Institute of Health's guidelines for using inclusive and gender-neutral language.

Gender-inclusive language guidelines.

The resources provided here are aimed at helping United Nations staff to communicate in a gender-inclusive way in the six official languages of the Organization.

GLAAD's guide to LGBTQ+ Terminology.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention's guidelines for collecting sexual orientation information.

National LGBT Health Education Center's pdf on inclusive language use within forms and policies within healthcare institutions.

Learning for Justice's Gender and Sexual Identity Resource guide.

This glossary was written to help give people the words and meanings to help make conversations easier and more comfortable discussing sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.

A blog post from the BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health journal on the importance of using inclusive language in medical practice, with a list of resources to consult at the bottom.

Washington Medical Commission's Inclusive Language Vocabulary for Gender and Sexual Orientation

Center for the Study of Social Policy's list of LGBTQ+ Resources

National LGBT Health Education Center's list of creating inclusive healthcare for LGBT people.

ACOG article on providing healthcare for immigrants with a list of terms and definitions to use.

An article from The Welcome Center on how to include Immigrants in the conversation on inclusive language.

Guidelines from the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communication on using inclusive language for immigrants.

Language guide on a list of accepted terms to use when describing economic mobility and persons of varying socioeconomic classes.

Do's and Don't's list of how to use inclusive language with respect to socioeconomic status.

National Union of Journalists guidelines for using inclusive language on persons living in poverty.

Hogg Foundation for Mental Health's inclusive language guide on why using inclusive language matters when speaking to persons with mental health conditions.

Stampede Stigma's guide to using inclusive language when describing persons with mental health conditions.

National Institute of Health's article on how to use person-first and identity first language.