Concept information
Preferred term
public health
Definition
- Public health is both an issue of global concern as a result of the transnational spread of disease and other medical problems and a field of studies and practices that is vital to global studies. As a field, public health refers to the development and implementation of preventive medical practices within a population. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Studies; Public Health]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- accidents
- bioterrorism
- carrier state
- community health
- consumer product safety
- continuity of health service operations during pandemics
- disease control
- disease eradication
- disease outbreaks
- disease reservoirs
- drug contamination
- emergencies
- emergency and disaster preparedness
- endemic diseases
- environmental health
- environmental medicine
- environmental microbiology
- environmental pollution
- epidemiologic factors
- epidemiologic measurements
- epidemiologic methods
- epidemiology
- equipment contamination
- equipment reuse
- food quality
- health legislation
- health planning
- health risk
- health transition
- healthy people 2010
- hygiene
- infectious disease transmission
- mental health epidemiology
- preventive care
- preventive medicine
- public health policy advocacy
- public health practice
- public hygiene
- radiologic health
- sanitation
- school health
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/public_health
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