public health
noun
: 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
Examples of public health in a Sentence
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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But the resurgence of measles hasn’t changed the message from public health officials.
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History / Elena Conis, TIME, 29 May 2024
Cattle in at least nine states and at least two people in the U.S. have been infected, enough to bring public health attention once again to the potential for a global pandemic.
—Arthur Allen, CBS News, 29 May 2024
As important as the WHA forum is for public health, this year’s summit will once again be missing a crucial voice: Taiwan’s. ...
—James K. J. Lee, National Review, 28 May 2024
Calls from Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre and several San Diego area members of Congress asking the national public health agency to look into the festering situation at the border have been turned aside.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2024
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History / Elena Conis, TIME, 29 May 2024
Cattle in at least nine states and at least two people in the U.S. have been infected, enough to bring public health attention once again to the potential for a global pandemic.
—Arthur Allen, CBS News, 29 May 2024
As important as the WHA forum is for public health, this year’s summit will once again be missing a crucial voice: Taiwan’s. ...
—James K. J. Lee, National Review, 28 May 2024
Calls from Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre and several San Diego area members of Congress asking the national public health agency to look into the festering situation at the border have been turned aside.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2024
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public health
noun
pub·lic health
ˌpəb-lik- 
: 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
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