Noun
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public health (uncountable)
The science and practice of community hygiene; includes preventive medicine, health education, sanitation and environmental safety.
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick. Paul Farmer
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. Kurt Vonnegut
The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance. Jamie Oliver
Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable. Neal Barnard
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. Anna Quindlen
I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue. Mandy Patinkin