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public health
noun
health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
Origin:
1610–20
1610–20
Related forms
pub·lic-health, adjective
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public health pub·lic health (pŭb'lĭk)
n.
Abbr. PH, P.H.
The science and practice of protecting and improving the health of a community, as by preventive medicine, health education, control of communicable diseases, application of sanitary measures, and monitoring of environmental hazards.
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Example sentences
And as far as he was concerned, the waterless urinal was a threat to public health.
Various models of contracting out bits of public health care are used, but more could be done, especially at primary-care level.
These new pocket-size sensors could provide more practical and powerful detection of such potential public health risks.
Providing them with modern energy would improve public health and combat climate change.
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