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

For the first time in the decade that homeless mortality has been tracked in Los Angeles County, fewer people have died on the streets and in shelters, the Department of Public Health reported Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times

“At a time of major reductions in federal and state funding for homeless services and supports, we are at risk of losing precious ground and seeing an increase in the number of vulnerable people losing their lives,” public health director Barbara Ferrer said in a statement released with the report.

From Los Angeles Times

Baum has also enrolled in the Sanitation Foundation’s NYC Trash Academy, a course on how trash affects climate, public health and city neighborhoods.

From The Wall Street Journal

A physician specializing in public health and clinical toxicology, and trained in environment epidemiology, carried out the research for EIA and a Congolese environmental group, PremiCongo.

From The Wall Street Journal

Newsom said joining the WHO-led consortium would enable California to respond faster to communicable disease outbreaks and other public health threats.

From Los Angeles Times