community medicine

American  

noun

1. public-health services targeted to a given community, often a low-income population.

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Example Sentences

The course in Bangor will place greater emphasis on community medicine, with students spending a year in a GP practice.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2023

That distinction goes to heart disease and cancer, said Dan Ciccarone, a professor of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2022

“We often need this quantitative data ... to explain what the community understands and knows,” said study leader Rachel G. Logan, a postdoctoral scholar in UC San Francisco’s department of family and community medicine.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2022

"Contact-tracing has been the most resource-intensive activity since the pandemic began," said Sanjay K. Rai, a professor of community medicine at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, the capital.

From Reuters • Jan. 13, 2022

Shira Shavit, an associate clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, began the pilot program in a San Francisco public health center.

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2019