public health
public health
nounDefinition of PUBLIC HEALTH
: the art and science dealing with the protection and improvement of community health by organized community effort and including preventive medicine and sanitary and social science
See Examples of PUBLIC HEALTH
- a disease that poses a serious threat to public health
- She got her degree in public health.
- Public health officials warned of an influenza outbreak.
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