How to Use public health in a Sentence

public health

noun

• She got her degree in public health.
• Public health officials warned of an influenza outbreak.
• Moutier says this is a public health crisis, pure and simple.
  — Susan Spencer, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2023
• Speaking of which: Are new mountain trails a boon for recreation and public health in Western towns?
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• The treaty, critics say, would allow the WHO to dictate global public health policy.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
• The national public health emergency is set to expire in May.
  — Emily Wagster Pettus, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2023
• Partisans will look to see where the authors come down on the great public health debates of the last four years: Lockdown or not; masks or no masks; vaccine or anti-vax.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
• My mom has a very close relationship with her sister, my auntie, who has a 40-plus-year career as a public health nurse.
  — Marci Alboher, Fortune Well, 12 Apr. 2023
• Most countries under-utilize taxation as a tool to improve public health, said the WHO.
  — Elina Ganatra, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
• These changes are good medicine for families, reduce health care costs, good for public health, and for all of our communities.
  — Megan Sandel and Charlotte Bruce, STAT, 28 Mar. 2023
• In the meantime, doctors such as Ijaz are hoping that the current outbreak in the UK can be managed through more effective public health campaigns.
  — David Cox, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2024
• On Monday, the councilor from Hyde Park framed the small plastic bottles as posing both littering and public health problems.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
• The restructuring of the state’s public health system aims to improve Hoosier’s overall health metrics, which in turn will prevent the toll of chronic diseases, Box said.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 12 May 2023
• Palomar operates hospitals in Escondido and Poway and is the largest public health care district in the state.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
• Wendy Parmet is a professor and expert on disability and public health law.
  — Judy Stone, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• The study authors said doctors and public health officials should be aware of babesiosis and inform people in at-risk states on ways to prevent the tickborne disease.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
• The report based the score on the average of three sub-categories, which included health care access, health care quality and public health.
  — Sydney Carruth, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
• If that’s true, given the enormous amount of people who have been infected and gotten Covid, this could be a serious public health problem for the future.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2023
• Here's what experts in the fields of toxicology and public health had to say about fentanyl contact overdoses.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2023
• But in a rainforest, the ecosystem actually absorbs some of the metal, boosting public health.
  — Simeon Tegel, NPR, 2 Apr. 2024
• Pets are not permitted at the Saturday Market for public health and food safety reasons.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
• Advertisement South Korea has some of the harshest drug laws in the world, and recreational use has long been dealt with as a criminal matter rather than a public health issue.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• These states argue that its psychoactive properties pose risks to public health and safety.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2023
• Though the virus is still circulating, 2023 is the first summer since the covid public health emergency formally ended, and many Americans have relaxed further over the course of the year.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• The transition to electric buses, the agency said, has reaped economic and public health benefits.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• That’s disappointing to many public health advocates, who have called for a standard between zero and five parts per billion.
  — Coral Davenport, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Travis Kelce’s presence in a vaccine commercial potentially makes people aware of the idea of getting the Covid and flu shots at the same time, which public health officials are promoting.
  — Christopher Morse, STAT, 2 Nov. 2023
• Part of the reason cases of syphilis — as well as other STIs — are rising is because public health efforts to control these diseases are underfunded.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
• With the end of the formal public health emergency in May, the federal government stopped purchasing and distributing Covid vaccines.
  — Tony Leys, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Also, during public health emergencies or to enforce vaccination edicts, the state could send migrants back across the border.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024