public health
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- 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, […]
- 2025 September 11, Kate Marvel, “‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Pollution was no longer considered an isolated problem to be hashed out between individuals. Instead, it was treated as a menace to public health and the economy.
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