public health en · NOUN
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(uncountable) The science and practice of community hygiene, which includes preventive healthcare, health education, sanitation and environmental safety.
Pollution was no longer considered an isolated problem to be hashed out between individuals. Instead, it was treated as a menace to public health and the economy.
2025 September 11, Kate Marvel, “‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster”, in The Guardian:My parents are both in public health now. They both work at the Tucson AIDS Project. I've got a sister who's a nurse, another one who works in a hospital, […]
1989 April 15, Eileen Bolinsky, Wendy Bennet-Alder, “I'm Slowly Getting To The Anger”, in Gay Community News, page 9:Every town the size of Maycomb had families like the Ewells. No economic fluctuations changed their status—people like the Ewells lived as guests of the county in prosperity as well as in the depths of a depression. No truant officers could keep their numerous offspring in school; no public health officer could free them from congenital defects, various worms, and the diseases indigenous to filthy surroundings.
1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
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my ပြည်သူ့ကျန်းမာရေး (science) · da folkesundhedsvidenskab (science) · my လူထုကျန်းမာရေး (science) · pl zdrowie publiczne (science) · fr santé publique (science) · hu közegészségügy (science) · pt saúde pública (science) · fi kansanterveys (science) · ms kesihatan awam (science) · id kesehatan masyarakat (science) · yi פֿאָלקסגעזונט (science) · sh javno zdravstvo (science) · tr halk sağlığı (science) · es salud pública (science) · la salus publica (science) · cmn 公共衛生 /公共卫生 (science) · sv folkhälsa (science) · ar الصِّحَّة العَامَّة (science)