public health

American  

noun

1. health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.

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Other Word Forms

• public-health
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of public health

First recorded in 1610–20

Example Sentences

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public health

The state public health department will be required to accredit agents to certify food products as non-ultraprocessed no later than June 1, 2028.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

In the past, courts have supplied this important backstop in other widespread policy challenges, such as the public health threats of tobacco use and the opioid epidemic, that lacked adequate legislative or regulatory responses.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

"We appreciate that the communities are worried and that is understandable, but the testing isn't necessarily going to give any good answers," said Prof Sarah Jones, consultant in environmental public health at PHW.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

More recently, in Moss Landing, Calif., where a 2025 lithium-ion battery-plant fire flared up this month, residents criticized CTEH’s air-monitoring findings last year of no hazardous levels of chemicals or threat to public health.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Holding down city expenditures was deemed more important at the time than public health.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy