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 mistrust around vaccines persists, fueled by historic public health scandals like the Tuskegee Study, where a group of Black men were misled to believe they were being treated for syphilis between 1932 and 1972.
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Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
The challenges posed by invasive species mirror the challenges in other time-sensitive fields, like public health, climate adaptation and sustainable agriculture.
—Pam Marrone, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
The universal birth-dose represents a public health triumph.
—Fiona Ma, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
The study authors analyzed cases from 29 states that require hospitals to report and send CRE samples to their local public health departments for testing.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
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Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
The challenges posed by invasive species mirror the challenges in other time-sensitive fields, like public health, climate adaptation and sustainable agriculture.
—Pam Marrone, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
The universal birth-dose represents a public health triumph.
—Fiona Ma, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
The study authors analyzed cases from 29 states that require hospitals to report and send CRE samples to their local public health departments for testing.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Public health.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/public%20health. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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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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