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      • Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of families and communities through promotion of healthy lifestyles, research for disease and injury prevention and detection and control of infectious diseases.
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  2. Public health is the organized effort of society to keep people healthy and prevent injury, illness and premature death. It is a combination of programs, services and policies that protect and promote the health of all Canadians.

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      What is public health? Public health aims to optimize the...

  3. Mar 18, 2019 · Public health is critical to a healthy, fair, and sustainable society. Realizing this vision requires imagining a public health community that can maintain its foundational core while adapting and responding to contemporary imperatives such as entrenched inequities and ecological degradation.

    • Lindsay McLaren, Paula Braitstein, David Buckeridge, Damien Contandriopoulos, Maria I. Creatore, Guy...
    • 10.17269/s41997-019-00196-2
    • 2019
    • 2019/06
  4. Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases.

  5. What is public health? Public health is the science and practice of preventing disease, protecting health, and promoting well-being for all people. While doctors take care of individuals, those who work in public health focus on advancing the well-being of entire populations.

  6. Jun 16, 2020 · Defining public health systems can help determine how to best design systems and deliver programmes and services to support public health within the larger health system and other key institutions and move discussions about the relationship between public health and healthcare forward.

    • Tamika Jarvis, Fran Scott, Fadi El-Jardali, Fadi El-Jardali, Elizabeth Alvarez
    • 10.1186/s12961-020-00583-z
    • 2020
    • Health Res Policy Syst. 2020; 18: 68.
  7. Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of populations—from neighborhoods to cities to countries to world regions—through education, promotion of healthy lifestyles, research toward prevention of disease and injury, and detecting, preventing, and responding to infectious diseases.

  8. Public health, together with primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, is part of a country's overall healthcare system. Public health is implemented through the surveillance of cases and health indicators, and through the promotion of healthy behaviors.

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