public health

English

public health (uncountable)

The science and practice of community hygiene; includes preventive medicine, 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, […]

science

Arabic: الصِّحَّة العَامَّة (aṣ-ṣiḥḥa(t) al-ʕāmma)
Burmese: လူထုကျန်းမာရေး (luhtu.kyan:mare:), ပြည်သူ့ကျန်းမာရေး (pranysu.kyan:mare:)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 公共衛生／公共卫生 (zh) (gōnggòng wèishēng)
Danish: folkesundhedsvidenskab
Finnish: kansanterveys (fi)
French: santé publique (fr) f
Hungarian: közegészségügy (hu)
Indonesian: kesehatan masyarakat (id)
Latin: salus publica f
Malay: kesihatan awam (ms)
Portuguese: saúde pública f
Serbo-Croatian: javno zdravstvo n
Spanish: salud pública f
Swedish: folkhälsa (sv) c
Turkish: halk sağlığı
Yiddish: פֿאָלקסגעזונט n (folksgezunt)

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