public health

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Noun

public health (uncountable)

1. The science and practice of community hygiene, which includes preventive healthcare, health education, sanitation and environmental safety.
   • 1989 April 15, Eileen Bolinsky, Wendy Bennet-Alder, “I'm Slowly Getting To The Anger”, in Gay Community News, page 9:

     My parents are both in public health now. They both work at the Tucson AIDS Project. I've got a sister who's a nurse, another one who works in a hospital, […]

Derived terms

• public health funeral

Translations

science

• Arabic: الصِّحَّة العَامَّة (aṣ-ṣiḥḥa(t) al-ʕāmma)
• Burmese: လူထုကျန်းမာရေး (luhtu.kyan:mare:), ပြည်သူ့ကျန်းမာရေး (pranysu.kyan:mare:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公共衛生／公共卫生 (zh) (gōnggòng wèishēng)

• Danish: folkesundhedsvidenskab
• Finnish: kansanterveys (fi)
• French: santé publique (fr) f
• Hungarian: közegészségügy (hu)
• Indonesian: kesehatan masyarakat (id)
• Latin: salus publica f
• Malay: kesihatan awam (ms)
• Portuguese: saúde pública f
• Serbo-Croatian: javno zdravstvo n
• Spanish: salud pública f
• Swedish: folkhälsa (sv) c
• Turkish: halk sağlığı (tr)
• Yiddish: פֿאָלקסגעזונט n (folksgezunt)