Structured Summary
Abstract
Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.
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Classification
Broader headings
Narrower headings
- Accidents
- Consumer Product Safety
- Disease Eradication
- Disease Outbreaks
- Drug Contamination
- Emergencies
- Endemic Diseases
- Environmental Medicine
- Environmental Microbiology
- Environmental Pollution
- Epidemiologic Factors
- Epidemiologic Measurements
- Epidemiologic Methods
- Epidemiology
- Equipment Contamination
- Equipment Reuse
- Food Quality
- Health Transition
- Hygiene
- Infectious Disease Transmission
- Legal Epidemiology
- Patient Harm
- Preventive Medicine
- Public Health Practice
- Radiologic Health
- Sanitation
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Synonyms
5 entry terms
- Community Health
- Health, Community
- Health, Public
- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health
- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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Aspects Covered
11 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
specialty; do not confuse with NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Public Health. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011634. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011634
- Public Health. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health
- Public Health. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189603